Lt Gen H S Panag (retd)
A recent post by a learned colleague on social media listed 15 tactical essentials that any army must follow to survive on a battlefield that’s shaped by a quantum leap in military technology. These lessons have emerged from the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza/Hamas/Iran wars, where new-age weapons and combat support systems have been successfully employed.
I will discuss these essentials, related to the fundamentals of tactics—firepower, protection, and mobility—that armies have employed since time immemorial to capture or defend ground, or, at the macro level, territory. Despite all technological advancements, capturing or defending ground still has to be done physically. However, the impact of military technology and the relative dominance of these three fundamentals have dictated tactics over time.
Transparent battlefields & lethality of PGMs
Modern surveillance and reconnaissance tools—such as satellites, drones, aircraft, radars, and electronic/cyber interception—have made the battlefield transparent. These technologies can pinpoint all static and moving targets, which can then be targeted with near 100 per cent hit probability by air- or ground-based precision-guided munitions (PGMs) and drones.
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