Dr Ambedkar Nagar, Aug. 26 -- Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Tuesday said that India needs to be armed, secure and self-reliant to fulfil the vision of Viksit Bharat.

Addressing the Run Samwad, the first Tri-Services Seminar at Army War College, in Madhya Pradesh's Dr Ambedkar Nagar, CDS Gen Chauhan called for academic pursuits on analysing the techniques and tactics of a war.

He said, "As a Viksit Bharat, we also need to be 'Sashastra' (armed), 'Suraksit' (secure) and 'Aatmanirbhar' (self-reliant), not only in technology, but also in ideas and in practice. Hence, there is a need to increase awareness on all fragments of our society on doctrinal and conceptual aspects, that's the academic pursuits of how war is fought and pr...