India, Oct. 13 -- It has been amply clear over the past couple of years that the Russia-Ukraine war, going on since 2022, has become a laboratory for a form of military adaptation unlike anything seen in recent times. This is a continuous, high-speed contest in which tactical innovations are fielded, countered, and re- countered within weeks rather than years. At the hub of this confrontation is a feedback loop that runs from the frontline to the production-line and back - a loop defining military capability.

As per a recent analysis of the Carnegie Endowment, "the classical model of defining requirements, issuing a tender, developing a system, testing it, producing it, and then fielding it - is too slow to remain relevant in a rapidly e...