The Future of Infantry Combat Vehicle

The Future Infantry Combat Vehicle FICV) programme of the Indian Army is a technological leap forward for the Next-Generation Infantry Combat Vehicles that will give soldiers a decisive edge on the battlefield

-  ABHAY KRISHNA

The Geostrategic Security Dynamic

The changing geostrategic canvas has undergone numerous revolutionary alterations which has created strategic volatility and uncertainty as also affected overall regional and international security environment. The Indian subcontinent’s security milieu has drastically rehabilitated in the past decade as a result of China’s menacing and swaggering expansionism, undermining India’s sphere of influence and Pakistan’s unstable, radicalised and revisionist government waging proxy war in India. These, coupled with shifting strategic realignment power centers, thus, require fortifying every aspect of our gross national power. Punitive deterrence and indigenous military might be crucial components for our strategic autonomy. National security, particularly in light of our active borders, requires that the Army pitches niche technological capabilities when needed, not when it is convenient and that modernisation efforts must keep up with or surpass pace of the adversaries. As a consequence, warfighting concepts as applicable to the Indian operational landscape and the future wars, India might need to define capability pursuits in a planned time frame with least reliance on external assistance.

Conflict - an Inevitable Part of the Indian Mosaic