Download the ETCISO App and get the Realtime updates and Save your favourite articles. India today faces a fundamentally different set of security challenges, driven by rapid technological disruption that is reshaping the nature of warfare, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan said Friday as he linked complex threats to the rise of AI, cyber capabilities, big data and private technology companies. He referred to Operation Sindoor, noting modern military operations increasingly relied on precision, speed and multi-domain integration rather than geography alone. Today, technology defines strategy." He also warned of "cognitive colonialism", with societies influenced and destabilised through information operations, narrative manipulation and psychological warfare enabled by AI, machine learning and data mining.

Source: Economic Times January 24, 2026 10:51 UTC