Legacy vs Disruptive Technologies: Achieving the Optimal Mix

What changes will likely occur in military technology over the next twenty years? Answering this question is crucial for making appropriate changes and adaptations in our capabilities to include weaponry, military operations, wartime preparations, and defense budget priorities. Defense resource decisions must be based on concrete analysis that itemizes and examines categories of major military technological inventions and innovations. Areas, where things are changing rapidly, warrant the most investment and creative thinking about modifying tactics and operational plans to exploit new opportunities. Certain evolving technologies have the potential to revolutionize our approach to warfare, and these very technologies are termed disruptive. This report advises the Indian Army on achieving the right mix between legacy and disruptive technologies.

What changes will likely occur in military technology over the next twenty years? Answering this question is crucial for making appropriate changes and adaptations in our capabilities to include weaponry, military operations, wartime preparations, and defense budget priorities. Defense resource decisions must be based on concrete analysis that itemizes and examines categories of major military technological inventions and innovations. Areas, where things are changing rapidly, warrant the most investment and creative thinking about modifying tactics and operational plans to exploit new opportunities. Certain evolving technologies have the potential to revolutionize our approach to warfare, and these very technologies are termed disruptive. This report advises the Indian Army on achieving the right mix between legacy and disruptive technologies.

Experts

Lt Gen D S Hooda (Retd)

Pranav Satyanath

Col. Shashank Ranjan

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