CDS Anil Chauhan: ‘Sudarshan Chakra’ to Serve as India’s Shield and Sword, Calls for Massive Integration

Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Anil Chauhan outlined the Sudarshan Chakra mission, India’s version of an Iron Dome, aimed at protecting key national assets through multi-layered defence combining missiles, lasers, drones, ISR, AI, quantum tech, and big data. He emphasized the need for massive integration across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains, with real-time data fusion. The mission will involve both soft and hard kill measures. Stressing a whole-of-nation approach, Chauhan linked military power with peace, citing the Mahabharata and Gita. He highlighted modern warfare trends—blurred war-peace lines, precision strikes, speed, and narrative control—as new matrices of victory.