Emphasis should be on enhancement and restructuring of Special Forces supported by technology as a force multiplier. Success of Special Forces in Gulf War II clearly brings out their real potential in making a strategic impact on a military campaign when employed skillfully and given directive control over the planning and execution of the roles assigned to them.13 India needs to look at this aspect and restructuring of Special Forces. Increase of technological prowess of the Indian Army is needed to fight modern wars under high technological environment.
Notes
1. Annual Report to Congress, Military Power of the People’s Republic of China 2006.
2. Dr Monica Chansoria, CLAWS Journal winter 2009, China’s Military Doctrine and Strategy: Continuity with Change.
3. Future Military Capabilities and Strategy of the People’s Republic of China, Report to Congress pursuant to Section 1226 of the FY98 National Defense Authorization Act (Washington, DC: Department of Defense, November 1998).
4. Bharat Verma, Indian Defence Review Jul–Sep 2009, Unmasking China.
5. Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War, pp 9, The Art of war by Sun Tzu (fourth century BC).
6. Dr Subhash Kapila Indian Army new war doctrine analysed, South Asia Analysis Group, 15 Jan 2010.
7. India wary of Sino–Pak strategic link-up in occupied Kashmir, ExpressIndia.com.
8. Ibid.
9. Nan Li1, The PLA’s Evolving Campaign Doctrine and Strategies.
10. Harsh V Pant, Sino-Indian ties: Troubled times ahead.
11. Future Military Capabilities and Strategy of the People’s Republic of China, Report to Congress pursuant to Section 1226 of the FY98 National Defense Authorization Act (Washington, DC: Department of Defense, November 1998).
12. Bharat Verma, Indian Defence Review Jul–Sep 2009, Unmasking China.
13. Brig. Gurmeet Kanwal, Security Research Review, Indian Special Forces: Reorganising for an Expanding Role.
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