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Subject: [ISN] Indian Army fears China attack by 2017
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2009-03-27 7:02:41
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Daily Times
March 27, 2009
LAHORE: The Indian military fears a ‘Chinese aggression' in less than a
decade, the Hindustan Times has reported, and claimed that a secret
exercise – called ‘Divine Matrix' – by the army's military operations
directorate has visualised a war scenario with the nuclear-armed
neighbour before 2017.
"A misadventure by China is very much within the realm of possibility
with Beijing trying to position itself as the only power in the region.
There will be no nuclear warfare but a short, swift war that could have
menacing consequences for India," said an army officer, who was part of
the three-day war games that ended on Wednesday. In the military's
assessment, based on a six-month study of various scenarios before the
war games, "China would rely on information warfare (IW) to bring India
down on its knees before launching an offensive", the report claimed.
The war games saw generals raising concerns about the IW battalions of
the People's Liberation Army (PLA) carrying out hacker attacks for
military espionage, intelligence collection, paralysing communication
systems, compromising airport security, inflicting damage on the banking
system and disabling power grids. "We need to spend more on developing
information warfare capability," he said. The war games dispelled the
notion that China would take at least one year for a substantial
military build-up across India's northeastern frontiers. "The Tibetan
infrastructure has been improved considerably. "The PLA can now launch
an assault very quickly, without any warning," said the officer.
"The military believes that China would have swamped Tibet with sweeping
demographic changes in the medium term. For the purposes of Divine
Matrix, China would call Dalai Lama for rapprochement and neutralise
him. The top brass also brainstormed over India's options in case
Pakistan joined the war too. Another apprehension was that Myanmar and
Bangladesh would align with China in the future geo-strategic
environment," said the Hindustan Times.
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