India, Feb. 21 -- What if the next war over Arunachal Pradesh is not fought on a mountain, but on a motherboard? The signs are on the wall. At the recently concluded India AI Summit, Lt. Gen. Dinesh Singh Rana, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command, spoke of India using AI to anticipate and foil a Chinese incursion into the LAC.

This is an important development. At patrol routes, ridgelines, satellite images show villages appearing overnight where none existed before. The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has documented over a hundred of these new Chinese settlements along the LAC. This encroachment is described as "salami slicing". In other words, steps too minor to provoke war. Yet, cumulatively it shifts the...