1st Edition
Emerging Digital Technologies and India’s Security Sector AI, Blockchain, and Quantum Communications
This book is an introductory account for policy makers, academia, and interested readers on the digital technologies on Indian Military. It covers three technologies – AI, Blockchain, and Quantum communications – and provides a detailed account on the military use cases. It evaluates the readiness of Indian Military in these technologies. A foundational text, it not only provides key policy analysis but also identifies the gray areas for the future research in the security studies.
The volume will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of military and strategic studies, especially future warfare, AI and Blockchain, and South Asian studies. It will be of interest to general readers as well.
Introduction
Arun Teja Polcumpally
PART I
1 Frontier Technologies Will Enhance the ‘Power’ of the State
Arun Teja Polcumpally
2 War, Hybrid War, and Revolution in the Military
Arun Teja Polcumpally
3 Quest for Military Supremacy – the United States vs. China vs. Russia
Poornima Vijaya
4 Non-Traditional Security + Data: The Road Not Taken
Arun Teja Polcumpally
PART II
5 Artifi cial Intelligence and Its Probable Military Disruptions
Vedant Saigal
6 Quantum Communications in Indian Armed Forces
Rushil Khosla
7 Application of Blockchain Technology in Military Affairs
Sonchita Debnath
8 Cyber Security Structure in India
Vedant Saigal and Arun Teja Polcumpally
9 Is India Ready With the Digital Army?
Arun Teja Polcumpally
Conclusion
Pankaj K Jha
Biography
Pankaj K Jha is Professor with JSIA, O.P. Jindal Global University, and Director of Centre for Security Studies (CSS). He is also Executive Director of CESCUBE, a think tank.
Arun Teja Polcumpally is Technology Policy Analyst at Wadhwani Institute of Technology Policy, Delhi.
Vedant Saigal is Assistant General Manager (University Administrative Services) at the Office of International Affairs and Global Initiatives, O.P. Jindal Global University.
