It is crucial for India to embrace Multi-Domain Operations

If the brawls at Pangong Tso, Galwan and Yangtse and the thrust required towards MDO are yardsticks to go by, strategic minds have a plateful of imperatives to address.

- AIR VICE MARSHAL MANMOHAN BAHADUR VM RETD)

NEW DELHI. The India-China skirmish on the Arunachal border has brought the Chinese threat on the front burner again making Foreign Minister Mr. Jaishankar accept that to counter it "..we have a deployment of the Indian Army...that we have never had." The threat had never decreased but had recessed in public consciousness due the mundane issues of electioneering, bridge collapses, yatras, G-20 et al. That such low-level and geographically-restricted clashes will keep recurring is a given; but what this should not do is to lull us into a complacent mindset that accepts such clashes, where the Indian jawan gives back more with sticks and fisticuffs than what he receives, as the likely future conflict scenario with China. The threat, actually, is at the other extreme of technical advancement in the concept of Multi Domain Operations (MDO).