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    ⁠Union Defence Minister underlines the dangers of Hybrid Warfare to India

    Posted 14 Feb 2025

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    About Hybrid Warfare

    • It combines conventional and unconventional methods, including military operations, cyber warfare, disinformation campaigns, and economic pressure. 
      • Example: China’s three warfare strategy including psychological, political and legal tactics, etc. 

    Key Characteristics of Hybrid Warfare

    • Obscurity: Makes it hard to identify the war threshold. 
    • Vagueness: It complicates attribution and response as the target country is not able to either detect a hybrid attack or not able to attribute it to a state. 

    Key reasons for their emergence

    • Strategic Advantage: Helps achieve political or economic objectives without any declaration of war keeping the possibility of diplomatic negotiations open.
    • Less Costly: It evades direct responsibility, and is logistically and economically less complex. 

    Threats of Hybrid Warfare to India

    • External Threats: Pakistan’s support for proxy forces, terrorist organisations and drug cartels threatening India’s security. 
    • Internal Insurgencies: Naxalism in Central India, Ethnic conflicts in Northeast, etc. 
    • Threat to Critical National Infrastructure: E.g. Cyberattacks on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. 

    Ways to tackle Hybrid Warfare

    • Integrate Hybrid warfare into defence strategies: Overcoming natural disadvantages and leveraging India’s strengths. 
    • Building resilience of armed personnels: To handle advanced technologies. 

    Key Measures taken to tackle Hybrid Warfare in India

    • Military Integration: Through Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). 
    • Tackling Cyber Threats: Operationalizing a Defence Cyber Agency. 
    • Defence indigenization: Through 'Make in India' initiatives, etc. 
    • Tags :
    • Hybrid Warfare
    • Strategic Advantage
    • Military Integration
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