India, Dec. 23 -- The nature of warfare is undergoing a fundamental transformation, with future conflicts expected to be fought across multiple domains such as cyber space, space, the electromagnetic spectrum and the cognitive space, said chief of defence staff (CDS), general Anil Chauhan, while addressing Techfest 2025 at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B). "These domains are no longer elite spaces; we depend on them every day, which makes them critical and contested," he said.

General Chauhan also spoke about a new phase of military transformation, which he described as "convergence warfare", driven by technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing, hypersonics, advanced materials and data anal...