New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took stock of the country’s security situation and operational preparedness with top military commanders and directed them towards integration and sustained preparedness to deal with threats.
With the theme of ‘Ready, Resurface, Relevant’, the deliberations at the Joint Commanders’ Conference, which began on Thursday, covered a diverse spectrum of issues including national security and developing a “joint military vision” for the future.
Modi presided over the concluding session of the conference at the headquarters of 21 Strike Corps in Bhopal on Saturday. He was briefed by Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan about the various discussions held during this year’s conference, which was attended by the commanders of all the three services – Army, Navy and Air Force – besides the tri-services commands .
“Modi lauded the role of the armed forces in nation-building and for providing Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) assistance to friendly countries,” said a statement issued by the Defense Ministry.
The PM also called upon the three services to be prepared to deal with “these new and emerging threats”, stressing that all steps are being taken to equip the armed forces with necessary weapons and technologies.
When asked what are these new threats, source of security establishment He said he was talking about non-traditional threats such as cyber, space and information warfare.
Sources also said that the Prime Minister stressed on the need to have a more integrated approach to fighting the war.
The Narendra Modi government is pushing for theater commands, a process to be headed by the CDS.
However, the process initiated by the late General Bipin Rawat, the country’s first CDS, is still a work in progress with the three services when it comes to specific nuances of “dramatization” of the Indian Army. ,
impression was the first to report It will not be long before June 2021 that the “theatrization” process, which was to begin that year, will be delayed.
While the conference began on Thursday, Saturday’s discussions included topics related to aspects of digitization, cyber security, challenges of social media. soul dependentInclusion of Agniveers and jointness among the three services.
Incidentally, while it was a conference for commanders, some multilevel and interactive sessions were held with participation of soldiers from each command of the Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force, including the tri-services Andaman and Nicobar Command Was
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)