Bengaluru, April 9 -- Modern warfare is no longer about declared battles - it is a continuous contest fought in cyber, space, and most importantly, the human mind. This evolving nature of conflict was underscored by Chief of Integrated Defence Staff Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, who said that the traditional distinction between wartime and peacetime is steadily disappearing.
According to him, contemporary global operations are increasingly being conducted without formal declarations of war, marking a shift towards a persistent environment of strategic competition where states remain engaged across multiple domains at all times.
Dixit highlighted that hybrid threats today are not confined to conventional battlefields but extend across cyber ...