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The Indian Army Chief said that due to sub-conventional
conflicts, nations may be forced to undertake interventions on
"purely humanitarian grounds if the diaspora is under threat,
sovereignty of nations being questioned such as attacks on
missions abroad and national assets and foreign soil being
used constantly for attack by state and non-state actors."
Observing that space and cyberspace have allowed wars to
be unleashed from drawing rooms, Kapoor said there was a need
to re-examine the very concept of national security.
"There is definitely a need to evolve concepts and
doctrine to protect nations' interests within and beyond the
national boundaries as well," he added.
In a reference to the situation in India's western
neighbourhood, the Army Chief said, "in some countries,
conflict has reached almost every household and is no more
restricted to borders or traditional warzones."
Citing example of Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan, the
Army Chief said battlefields were merging as "going after the
poppy cultivator and heroin smuggler may go concurrently with
a war on militant fundamentalist groups, in an era when drug
money finds its way into terrorist wars." (MORE) PTI