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SP's Landforces 02-09.Indd I s s u e 2 • 2 0 0 9 V o l 6 N o 2 SP’s AN SP GUIDE PUBLICATION Sponsor of International Seminar - BMS - organised by Indian Army and CII LandWWW.SPSLANDFORCES.NET ForcesROUNDUP In This Issue T h e ONLY journal in Asia dedicated to Land Forces Smerch BM-30 can be M-109 has been A Battle Management used as an independent continually upgraded and System would provide artillery system, improved to today’s current situational awareness with shoot-and-scoot version, the M-109A6 to a unit/subunit/ capabilities, in the high- “Paladin”, which is used in detachment commander altitude mountainous US Army in its armoured and networking him areas of Jammu and and mechanised divisions. down to an individual Kashmir soldier or a tank BRIGADIER (RETD) LT GENERAL (RETD) LT. GENERAL (RETD) 6 VINOD ANAND? 7 R.S. NAGRA? 10 V.K. KAPOOR? EditorialEditorial Face to Face The situation in Pakistan is deteriorating rapidly. While on one hand we have seen the assertion of the popular will in the reinstatement of Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary, on the other hand the inter- nal security situation in Pakistan is in shambles. The suicide bombing of a mosque in Jamrud in Khyber agency on March 27, 2009, was followed by an audacious assault on the Police Training Centre at Manawan on March 30 on the outskirts of Lahore. Sunday April 05, saw yet another suicide blast this time by a teenager, in a Shia mosque in Chakwal in Punjab which was executed a few hours after the targeting of the security forces near the UN office, in the heart of Islamabad. It is obvious that Pakistan’s capacity and will to tackle Al Qaida, Taliban and other jihadi groups is lacking. Analysts in New York and in Washington who are already putting forward apocalyptic timetables for Pakistan feel that the US is run- ning out of time to help Pakistan change its present course. David Kilcullen, a specialist in guerrilla warfare and counter insurgency, who advised Gen. David H. Petraeus when he was the American commander in Iraq, has said that Pakistan could be facing internal collapse within six months. President Obama’s new strategy for Af-Pak region calls for a virtual remaking of Pakistan’s institutions and even of the national psyche. While officially, Pakistan’s government wel- comed Mr. Obama’s strategy, with its massive dose of monetary aid of $1.5 billion a year for 5 years, however its people and the official machinery including the military are continuing to deny that a threat from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, is so imminent. In light of the above India needs to effec- ‘Common tively protect it’s economic and security interests from the menacing developments c o m m u n i c a t i o n in the neighbourhood. India should hone its intelligence gathering capabilities in all dimen- sions and virtually seal its land and maritime borders with rapid reaction forces available to manage crises within and to strike across the border based on real-time intelligence. Publication and release of this issue is coin- ciding with the Battle Management Systems policy vital’ (BMS) Seminar in mid-April 2009 and hence it carries the interview of the Director General Information Systems along with two articles on BMS and other interesting pieces includ- ing Limited Wars in Asia, Chinas Asymmetric In an interview to SP’s Editor-in-Chief Jayant Baranwal and Editor Warfare capability, Multi Barreled Rocket Launchers, Self Propelled Guns in artillery and of SP’s Land Forces Lt General (Retd) V.K. Kapoor, Director the status of the Army Air Defence in India. General Information Systems Lt General P.C. Katoch, UYSM, AVSM, SC, pinpoints the loopholes and challenges facing the Indian Army in its quest to achieve network centric capability. LT GENERAL (RETD) PRAN PAHWA Photographs: SP Guide Pubns EDITOR Lt General (Retd) V.K. Kapoor 2/2009 SP’S LAND FORCES 1 “In a network centric environment, where we are looking at seamless integration, communications policies need to be formulated and implemented centrally.” mations and achieve network enabled status by about middle of the next decade. SP’s: Are we prepared to deal with the threats that the networks are going to face? DGIS: Our networks have robust inbuilt security and will be operating on secure gateways. However, national expertise toward tackling the embedded threats is at present limited and needs to be developed. SP’s: Is the IA planning to network all weapon platforms for ‘situational aware- ness’ or is this going to be done selectively? What are the costs involved? DGIS: Networking in the army is being planned right from the Army Headquarters level down to the individual soldier and the tanks. This networking, however, will be done in a phased manner. Costs involved are as per the long term perspective plans of modernisation of the army. SP’s: Apart from digitised communica- tions, what are the other essentials neces- sary to convert the army’s stand alone weapon systems into situational awareness SP’s Land Forces (SP’s): Network Centric is the requirement of the day. We are mak- skills in their respective fields. We also platforms? What could be the cost incurred Warfare (NCW) is an information superi- ing a headway towards achieving such a have a Tri-Service Defence IT Consultative for digitising a formation, like a division? ority-enabled concept at the heart of which force keeping the primary focus of protect- Committee which incorporates leaders from DGIS: The systems to get seamlessly meshed lie digital communication networks. How ing our borders and sovereignty. Fighting the industry and academia for advice on with the overall NCW environment require is the Indian Army (IA) visualising trans- terrorism/insurgency effectively would be important IT matters to the services. equipments and weapon systems which are formation to this type of warfare? a tremendous spin-off acquired through network enabled. In other cases, a human Director General Information Systems Net-centric capability. At present, we have a SP’s: The terrorist attacks in Mumbai interface is being adopted as an interim (DGIS): The IA is undergoing a phase of number of projects working towards obtain- revealed that while even terrorists were measure. The complete digitisation process transition from conventional warfare to ing NCW capabilities, which are following using technologies easily available in the is being done in phases and procedures information-enabled warfare, that is, from a road map and are at different stages of market to achieve effective communication, are being networked selectively. The costs platform centric to network centric warfare. development. Even the networking at Tri India’s elite counter-terror outfits had incurred are as per the long term perspec- The full realisation of any such revolution Service level has been worked out and is failed to master technologies which could tive planning funds allocated by the army is possible only with technological develop- being implemented. lend the winning edge. Where do we lack for this purpose. ment, organisational adaptation and, most in capability? What is the status in terms importantly, a national will. An effective SP’s: The military instrument of NCW will of ISR capabilities? What can be done in SP’s: All advanced countries have and technologically sound information tech- have to be forged on suitably integrated the interim till the IA acquires full spec- some forms of Soldier Modernisation nology (IT) force, along with robust com- organisations, induction of new technolo- trum Command, Information and Decision Programmes. How has India’s F-INSAS munication networks, have been created to gies, joint operational concepts and doc- Support System (CIDSS) capability? been designed and how much progress have facilitate real-time sharing of information trines and joint training. Your comments. DGIS: The reasons for failure to detect/ we achieved? and quick decision making so as to achieve DGIS: Interoperability is a problem facing intercept the intrusion of terrorists into DGIS: F-INSAS is a multifaceted programme information superiority. A road map has not just the IA but many other armies the Mumbai are being investigated by other which aims at making the soldier an inte- been formulated by which we can progress world over. Since the systems were con- agencies. I cannot comment on those issues. gral part of the war fighting system. This steadily towards being a potent IT force. ceived and developed in standalone modes, The IA is among the most advanced armies involves provisioning of state-of-the-art Next, we have identified development their integration into a system of systems to have sophisticated surveillance systems. weapon system, communication equipment, of C4I2 systems as a major thrust area for in a seamless manner is a technological These surveillance devices are being net- and so on to make the soldier more effective modernisation of the army. Development challenge. We are working towards identify- worked in a phased manner for better syn- and survivable in war. and fielding of automated operational infor- ing appropriate solutions and a common chronisation, speedy transfer of information mation systems for various levels of opera- Network Centric Operations philosophy and efficient decision making. Let me assure SP’s: Software-Defined Radio (SDR) is a tions from Army HQs to Battalion HQs and is being worked out. Integration at HQ you that the IA is modernising itself to meet rapidly evolving technology and over the down to individual soldiers is in progress. Integrated Defence Staff level is ensuring the challenges of the future. last few years, analog radio systems are Command Information Decision Support interoperability and synergy at the inter-ser- being replaced by digital radio systems.
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