Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan has said that the Department of Military Affairs is working on preparing the ‘Vision 2047’ roadmap for the defence forces along with the blueprint for the theatre commands.
“Firstly, we are working to prepare ‘Vision 2047’. We are looking at completing the same by mid-2025 and releasing it officially. Secondly, we intend to bring out an Integrated Capability Development Plan (ICDP) which will be slightly different from the previous Capability-Development Long-Term Integrated Perspective Plan. We are working on it in a new direction,” General Chauhan said.
The CDS was speaking on the Defence Ministry podcast, ‘Rakshasutra’, where he laid out his vision for the DMA and its future plans. He also said that the DMA was working on the creation of joint doctrines for integration among the defence forces.
“Joint doctrines are being prepared on subjects like multi-domain operations, network-centric warfare, conventional missile force, joint staff work, space, joint communications, joint logistic architecture, airborne and heli-borne operations. We have already taken out a joint doctrine on cyber operations,” he said.
General Chauhan said the DMA and the integrated defence staff will be working on “capabilities required to be developed using future technologies”.
Towards this, we will take out specific policies in areas such as space, quantum artificial intelligence, manned unmanned teaming and lethal autonomous systems, elucidating the path for their development and use,” he said.
The CDS said that besides working on other projects, the DMA was also working on certain organisation of all structural reforms that would be carried out.
“We are presenting the blueprint for integrated theatre commands to the government and creating them. Also, we will have a joint planning and operation room to enable the three services to conduct integrated planning and operations,” he further said.