Cyber Warfare (CW) and Electronic Warfare (EW) are crucial to combat in modern warfare. This paper explores how the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China and the Indian Army (IA) have approached CW and EW. While both the PLA and the IA acknowledge electronic and cyber warfare as being doctrinally important, China has been more proactive in engineering their integration in its command structure. What does India have to do for its own Army?
Harsh Pant, Director, Strategic Studies Program, ORF
Kartik Bommakanti, Associate Fellow, ORF
Lt. Gen. Arun Sahni, Former General Officer Commanding in Chief, Indian Army
Pooja Bhatt, Ph.D. Candidate, (CIPOD-Disarmament and Diplomacy), SIS, JNU, New Delhi
11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Registration
11:30 – 11:35 a.m. | Welcome remarks by chair | Harsh Pant
11:35 – 11:55 a.m. | Presentation | Kartik Bommakanti
11:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. | Remarks | Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Arun Sahni
12:10 – 12:25 p.m. | Remarks | Pooja Bhatt
12:25 – 12:55 p.m. | Moderated Q&A
12:55 – 1:00 p.m. | Closing remarks by chair
1:00 p.m. | Lunch
