‘Need To Blend Civil, Military Capabilities To Meet China Challenge’

NEW DELHI: As the dynamics of war fighting keeps changing, national security paradigms need to keep pace. This holds good for a country like India that’s up against an adversary such as China. The biggest challenge now is how to transit from an industrial ear military to a digital era military, says Lt Gen. Raj Shukla, GOC-in-Chief of Army Training Command (ARTRAC). Speaking to StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, he emphasized the need to fuse civil and military capabilities to boost the defence ecosystem as the need for multi-domain operations assume critical importance.
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Excerpts from StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale's interview with Lt Gen Raj Shukla, GOC-in-Chief of Army Training Command (ARTRAC). The full interview is available on BharatShakti.in: • Civil-Military Capabil...
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[@velociraptor1596]

Nitin, I was wondering why doesn't India create a Dedicated RIOT Force and revamp the police force? Would be thrilled if you could dedicate a video on this topic in the future. Being able to control internal challenges effectively would be very beneficial. And where can I contact you (email etc.).

[@vikish1000]

An extremely relevant talk at a time when the armed forces are poised for unprecedented transformation

[@SandipanNaths]

For a talk like this, I am ready to walk thousands of miles... insightful and inspiring. Thanks Nitin

[@AngelssharE]

Sir your selection of topics for discussion is quite unique. Love watching your channel. Thank you, Thank you!!

[@debasishdas1137]

A glimpse of mind from defence establishment. brilliant one, Nitin Bhai. We need TOTAL DEFENCE. All relevant organs of the country to get united and build defence. Threat is good. SYNERGY is in need. Very happy to learn that defence establishment is thinking of 'Failure Funding'. Symptoms of maturity. Good 17 mins, Nitin Bhai, Bravo.

[@srummal]

Excellent insights. Good to know that Army is investing in technology heavily, collaborating with Startups.... Preparing for the path of next gen warfare.

[@prashkd7684]

It is rare to see this side of defence services.. To realise that people in our military are focusing so much on technology. Thanks for this interview Nitin. I rarely comment on YT videos but had to on this one. Regards.

[@randmht9976]

Great great insights. Good to see the Indian army has woken upto this challenge after long. Hope we are not too late.

[@aroundgoodpeople5577]

Brilliant mind. Capable military leader. We in Nepal feel proud of your successes. Best wishes for the ventures.

[@nakshatraroy7442]

Honestly, it will take years and years before our home grown defense industry catches up with the quality of the Western armaments. Until that time we must simultaneously continue procuring top-quality Western fighting machines. Things like buying another few squadron of Rafael, swarm drones, anti-drone technologies should be our top priority.

[@trnswamy]

Gigantic effort required to reach a stage to handle the adversaries. Very good discussion and I am happy that we have started working on this.

[@aamriez1]

A great personality i have ever seen Sir Raj Shukla

[@kunal7945]

What an excellent and articulate discussion by lt gen raj shukla

[@vatsalgokani8042]

Just felt after completion of the convo that 15 mins from such an amazing mind an a wholesome Gen is perhaps too little for us😄 Anyways, thank you Nitin sir for this one. Certainly pumped up to know that the grey zone warfare tactics are being studied within the civil-military circles and sure of that it'll be designed and practiced in our own unique ways😄🎉

[@ganesannarayanan2047]

Acknowledging adversary's ability is the starting point for our evolution of strategies, measures and coming together of different institutions to meet the challenges 👍👏

[@stanzinnamgail07]

well we can say that artrac is in good hands 👍🏻 kudos to the gen.

[@ishwinder65]

Very well explained the various complexities of Present day scenario and how well intentioned our approach is, to tackle it 👏

[@saiecorp5646]

Great insight into minds of our military leadership. It was great to listen to Gen. Shukla. Thank you, Nitin.

[@pranavsaran4565]

Super! Full of quality insights.

[@sanjaykandpal9849]

Sir Thought provoking interview , your ideations will one day will pay rich dividends for our Arms Forces

[@sharan50000]

Nitin ji, Gen Sahab didn't give you much opportunity to say much this time ☺️

[@jackytang3683]

your perspective always on Indian's side that make China as enemy and zero- win game, but it is totally different China, we consider india an important neighbor and friend.

[@srim728]

Recruit people ready to work part-time for this channel.

[@ghanshyamjha9521]

Superb program.

[@commonindian3997]

Sir may be a request you can put forward to government. Every indian citizen must serve in army twice in his lifetime for X amount of months, starting from age of 18 years to 45 years. Have the civilian choose their time of when do they want to get trained. And they can get trained and do anything - holding a gun on border may not be necessary. The benefit of this could be 1). People will come to know the army life. 2). All these religion and cast nonsense shall automatically go away cause army has a unified culture. 3). People will be more descipline and patriotic. Give them points and link them with aadhar, give benefit like train journey at reduce rate, less loan interest from government Bank, free health insurance etc.

[@balasuryaglopol]

I'll be great to discuss about the non-kinetic warfare in the future video, about India has any doctrines or any predetermined approach of facing it...our capabilities and any high-roads we are taking right now...

[@India.Freedom]

Thank you 🙏

[@blackmamba3427]

Brilliant discussion 👏

[@blokin5039]

Why???

[@rangak3976]

Nitinji.. just to ask military seniors next time you discuss sir. "Can our military (all branches) determine the future theoretical capabilities first. From which military work with Sr.scientists and professors to determine theoretical instruments, devices, weapons, etc needed to achieve those perceived capabilities. Then share these papers to our sci-tech organizations like DRDO, ADA, GTRE, etc who can try create the actual real devices and machines." For now, seems like India is just catching up with western military concepts and machines- kind of copying what others 'created'. Wish we surprise the world with completely new concepts and devices. May be like, create a targeted tsunami to wipe off man made islands, remotely targeted earthquakes to mess up tunnels dug around remote mountains, target sun heat on a specific base from the sky during day or night.. etc. While i stand with my question above, my examples here are just per say just to give sense of what my question is.

[@surendrabarsode8959]

Great interview!! Request Nitin to allow guests to speak fully and not jut in. We missed what Gen was talking in between due to this. I understand what Gen was talking was very exciting but he must have a full run to talk.

[@neelanjana01]

This is an edited interview. The entire interview is on our sister channel, bharatshakti. Thanks.

[@surendrabarsode8959]

@@neelanjana01 Oh I see.. thanks for the clarifications!!

[@vatsalgokani8042]

@@neelanjana01 That's great to know ma'am, thank you.

[@santoshkumarbabar7215]

Good insights Thanks Sir 🙏

[@nivv6613]

Good work as always...sadly underrated need to spread your work

[@suresh.bbhadraiah9571]

Sir, Many of the acronyms General Sir is referring to were not immediately understood..

[@HRHKamal]

👏

[@user-nq8vt5xr6j]

Some people will say that the origin of war is aggression, but they are all wrong, aggression is behavior, hatred and ignorance are the origin of war, in order to transfer and unite the people India is a master of using hatred

[@srim728]

Introduce defense start-ups on your program. Bring them to light. Speak about new and upcoming technologies around the world in defense. Do book reviews and provide book synopsis of various works in Defense and Strategy field

[@utkarshtiwari6768]

❤️🇮🇳

[@amandakeys8659]

Nitin was muffled through the talk 🦜

[@sugatoroy1254]

Digitisation of the armed forces can leap frog our national security into the digital age albeit similar to the impact of the mobile phone on telecommunication and developing e-services across the length & breadth of the country

[@aashish1703]

Do a discussion on Baluchistan attack .

[@harshalgore]

Very insightful discussion and information. Jai Hind 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@akshaypawale4997]

Have a show with Retd Major Madan who is mostly guest at Pgurus.

[@ON-tk7bp]

Good pertinent interview - well made points but please remove the GIST marketing fly by! It detracts from the interview

[@akshaypawale4997]

The talk can be much deeper and longer atleast 40 mins. My favourite expert on this topic is Major madan guest at Pgurus.

[@nitingokhale184]

Pl see this full interview here kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6GrqoCYr9Z8pM0

[@iXpress]

Lt Gen Raj Shukla be the next CDS. Perfect thought process.

[@sharan50000]

I don't think so

[@iXpress]

@@sharan50000 No problem, whoever is the best

[@moodyaman170]

We need some distraction for china ...so that their focus will be on the issue like we can build Vietnam and philipines stronger than ever .... meanwhile we can preserve our industry and can challenge both the enemy.

[@hemaledotcom7761]

*First make your own weak and pathetic country strong before dreaming of making other countries strong.* 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@Bhoetuk]

If India considers, National Security most important, specially on its Northern Border from Ladhak in the west to Arunachal in the East. India had Tibet as its most peaceful Northern Neighbor for centuries and there was no need to spend crores of Rupees to safe guard the Northern Indo-Tibet Border. Things changed drastically after the occupation of Tibet in 1950 and thereafter India’s great mistake of recognition of Tibet as apart of China. The story does not end here. For decades China is nibbling Indian territories and laying claims in Ladhak and in Arunachal and also spends millions of Rupees per day to guard the Borders. Now time has come for India to show your guts to say to China Politically, that they are sitting on an occupied country Tibet and India will never negotiate on LOC/LAC on the Indo-Tibet Border and that Chinese PLA should disappear from the whole of Indo-Tibet Border. This is the naked truth and India should act now. I see this as the only solution and talks will never bring results with the Chinese, they will keep on dragging India as long as it may take.

[@user-nq8vt5xr6j]

By using hatred to unite people, but playing it too far

[@GadiparthiArjun]

general is suitable for state police with that belly, not for army

[@napoleonbonaparte937]

Currently India's unemployment situation and the resultant economic inequality situation has reached horrendous proportions due to the faulty policies of the Modi government since 2014 and this incident in Bihar of the Railway 🚃🚂 coach burning 🥵🥵🥵 is just one of the prime proofs of it that young 🌱🌱🌱 unemployed students is currently extremely frustrated 🥴🥴🥴 on the poor performance of the RSS BJP fascist government on every front especially economic front.

[@rahult1518]

Awareness is fine. But the volume in $ and talent is quite minuscule as compared to china. Sorry but this is not gonna get you to match China ..its way too slow

[@Kenkalsi]

Hinduism means being Weak. We always react. Every war we react not ACT. Need to Change Fundamentals of Fkn Weak Hinduism. We need to Act, India can take Burma first and than easily Tibet but India need a Military govt as even Modi Govt is strong but still its Hindu Govt n Hindu Means Weak Govt. Only Indian Army Govt can give us Hindus what we deserve. Hindu Pride is saved by Army not by Congress or Bjp, both are fighting for power not for Hindu/Sikh Honour. Last Hindu/Sikh honour was Sikh Empire and thats why India has Ladah n Leh orherwise these were always Chinese.

[@kdy549]

A Banda upsc m ghus gaya

[@urroshankumar]

Sir much needed talk in sync with India's strategic insight towards china and its aggression. Also Nice tie @nitin sir Army_Tie