Technical Preparedness Of Indian Army

India during December 2011, practiced the biggest army exercise in its history "Sudharashan Shakti" in Rajhistan. In the exercise which took place 150 km away from Pakistani border, 60000 Indian soldiers, 300 tanks and 150 modern planes and drones participated. The basic objective of the exercise was to practically test a military strategy "Network Centric Warfare" (NCW) and to check its advantages and shortfalls.
The idea of NCW was conceived by American generals some 20 years ago. In simple words this idea can be described as integration of all the three wings of forces, air force, navy and army with the help of all the available means of information technology and to establish a system of contacts from high command to a soldier at the bottom. In the military language this system is termed "Chain of Command"
Therefore, on the eve of Sudharshan Shakti, 24 km away from the "battle field" a Joint Operation and Information Room (JOIC) was established. High commond of Indian air force and military sitting in this temporary center monitored the battle field issued directions to the soldiers. These general had been receiving information from the field through communication satellites, radars and computers , continuously.
It is a fact that information technology has made fighting in the battle field as well as keeping an vigilant eye on the enemy movement very easy. Therefore, military experts say that an ounce of silicon in computer has more power than one tonne uranium. So the American soldiers sent for wars are equipped with small computers in addition to weapons. The presence of computer has enabled them to send information and receive instructions from officers during the war on facebook or skype and all process takes seconds.
Indian experts say that their sudharshan shakti exercise was successful and they will implement gradually the system in all the army corps and in air force and navy.