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Role Of Future Infantry Soldier In Emerging Conflicts

Role Of Future Infantry Soldier In Emerging Conflicts. Lt Gen Jasbir Singh, Avsm, Vsm DIRECTOR GENERAL OF INFANTRY. Future Wars - Swift, Intense and High on Attrition. Transparent – Svl Devices, Numerous Sensors and Seamless Communication. Higher Accuracy & Lethality.

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Role Of Future Infantry Soldier In Emerging Conflicts

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  1. Role Of Future Infantry Soldier In Emerging Conflicts Lt Gen Jasbir Singh, Avsm, Vsm DIRECTOR GENERAL OF INFANTRY

  2. Future Wars - Swift, Intense and High on Attrition. Transparent – Svl Devices, Numerous Sensors and Seamless Communication. Higher Accuracy & Lethality. Rapid Transition of Information. Quick Responses Required at All Levels. “Hybrid Wars” are the reality of today’s world – defining factor to strategize for prep army for battle. FUTURE OPERATIONAL SCENARIO

  3. PREVIEW ROLE OF INFANTRY Infantry Soldier – What Does he Require? Role of GIS in shaping Tomorrow’s Infantry Warrior CONCLUSION

  4. INFANTRY – THE PRIMA DONNA OF BATTLE

  5. “While the conduct of war continues to change, its nature and character will not. The field of human conflict remains ineluctably human, not technical; inherently complex, not orderly; and inescapably defined by the land and the populations and resources found there.”

  6. Warfare remains a chaotic human endeavour, fraught with Clausewitzian fog, friction and chance. Human psychology – man behind the weapon – paramount importance. No Technological “Silver Bullets” - wars will continue to be won with superior strategy, operational art, and tactical finesse. Unique ability of Infantry to conduct human interface at close range yet act across full spectrum of operations. Rapid Transition of Information. Quick Responses Required at All Levels. “Hybrid Wars” are the reality of today’s world – defining factor to strategize for prep army for battle. ROLE OF INFANTRY

  7. Always desirable to kill the enemy at a standoff distance, to prevent own casualties. Enemy prefer to fight below ISTAR threshold – rendering application of sensor led standoff capabilities ineffective. Force Projection in populated areas is problematic – Too much force can turn population hostile in absence of any psychological connection and too less force projects an image of weakness. Infantry soldier is ideal to project “Iron Fist with a Velvet Glove” and yet retain ability to rapidly transition across the spectrum of operations as circumstances warrant. URBAN TERRORISM - PECULIARITIES

  8. Perennial Challenges - weight, noise, bulk, high power consumption and prohibitive cost. What Does an Infantry Soldier Want? Seamless integration of advanced weaponry, sensors and comn systems. Integration with data, sensor inputs, geo-spatial information - in fact, anything that can assist him in doing histask better. Light weight, ergonomic and small size systems. What We Don’t Want? No overburdening with needless data – feed him only what he needs, in the format that he understands filtering out the rest. Reduce time delay – in processing, transmitting or displaying. Time is critical in battlefield. Consistency in performance – All terrain, all weather, 24 x 7. Cost Effectiveness. Aim is to empower a soldier and not encumber him. INFANTRY SOLDIER – WHAT DOES HE REQUIRE?

  9. Role of GIS in Shaping Tomorrow’s Infantry Warrior

  10. Westpoint Academy – Students practicing wargaming using GIS software. Soldier of tomorrow will have to get comfortable using modern GIS tools in daily military life. Ability to plan and execute successful missions using tools of digital battlefield of paramount importance to all soldiers. Geospatial analysis and technology is now into mainstream of supporting all-source intelligence analysis. Geospatially enabled intelligence data can be shared directly with warfighting architectures, quickly integrating the full spectrum of intelligence data directly into an operational picture supporting planning methods. TOMORROW’S INFANTRY WARRIOR

  11. GEOINT products have revolutionised HUMINT mission planning. Soldier can digitally walk walk and understand the terrain before conducting missions. It also helps commanders to measure the accuracy and truthfulness of his sources. Broad threat spectrum presents tremendous challenge to infantry soldier in the forefront and to intelligence community gathering intelligence and feeding it to them – to provide actionable intelligence to the right person, at the right time, for the right purpose. Tasks further complicated by varied roles played by infantryman in equally varied terrain, locales and situations. TOMORROW’S INFANTRY WARRIOR

  12. Modern Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide powerful and useful facilities for digitizing and mapping representations of geographic space. GIS helps making maps more interactive, updated to represent real time information. Facilitates modifying the map as also ease of use of GIS enabled embedded software devices like GPS. F-INSAS envisages an interface with GIS software for each wearable PDA and ruggedised laptop with commanders. Understanding terrain is essential to accurately plan and effectively execute any combat operation. State-of-the-art terrain analysis and geospatial data management system will provide commanders and soldiers with geospatial awareness and facilitate seamless data transfer among users, applications and platforms. Benefits of GIS to Infantry

  13. Create system that provides GIS, digital satellite image processing and 3D terrain visualisation capabilities as well as high-volume digital map printing for the army. Combine this up-to-date geospatial information with military intelligence to provide commanders and soldiers with true geospatial intelligence. Reduce time taken to gather terrain data, analyse, plan and execute a mission. Real-time geospatial information and digital terrain imaging will give us the ability to plan execute missions in the span of minutes or hours versus days or weeks. Updating maps to reflect latest realities on ground by troops who physically visit remote areas will facilitate data upgradation that can then be used by other agencies. Finer aspects of geospatial integration – require deliberation and careful planning. Customisation of GIS to Infantry

  14. Battle for future will neither be conventional nor irregular but combination of both. We have to provide him with best of weapons and equipment, Battlefield Support Systems to remain connected in the network centric battlefield of tomorrow, and matching mobility to move about the battlefield with accompanying load to execute assigned missions. Use of GEOINT tools to further HUMINT gathered and integration of geospatial tools into our army will improve efficacy of infantry soldier to the peril of the enemy. CONCLUSION

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