Army Commander's conference concludes, lessons from ongoing conflicts discussed

The gathering of India's apical subject commanders, known arsenic the Army Commander's Conference, has concluded successful the nationalist capital. The 3 time league was chaired by General Upendra Dwivedi, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), apical subject leaders specified arsenic the vice-chief, the 7 service commanders and different elder officers attended the meeting.The gathering was held to sermon a wide assortment of issues. Modernisation of the service was 1 of the main issues discussed astatine the biannual conference, this arsenic the service is successful the mediate of an crossed the committee monolithic modernisation thrust arsenic the organisation is evolving into what is termed arsenic a 'Future Ready Force'. The army, successful the mediate of its decennary of transformation, is marking 2026 arsenic the twelvemonth of networking and information centricity.Different aspects related to modernising the unit were discussed astatine the conference. These discussions were related to exertion infusion successful combat operations. Changes successful doctrine and grooming wrong the service that volition pb to the aforementioned technological infusion successful operations were besides discussed by the apical brass during the conference.Lessons learnt done Operation Sindoor and subject actions successful ongoing conflicts was besides discussed successful the meeting.

The usage of unmanned platforms and counter-unmanned systems arsenic good arsenic the operational capableness requirements of these systems was a cardinal absorption country for the service leadership.Besides the subject apical brass, Cabinet Secretary Dr TV Somanathan, Chief of Defence Staff General Upendra Dwivedi, Defence Secretary RK Singh, Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board Alok Joshi and Navy Chief Admiral DK Joshi addressed the conference.The talks astatine the league besides focussed connected inter-ministerial coordination on with accrued synergy betwixt civilian and subject institutions was a cardinal thrust country of the three-day affair. The request to ramp-up indigenous defence accumulation capabilities successful bid to fortify strategical resilience and summation self-reliance successful the defence assemblage has been an important acquisition derived from ongoing conflicts.