India, Sept. 21 -- The nature of warfare is undergoing a profound transformation and India must urgently adapt its military doctrine, force structure, and industrial base to keep pace, lieutenant general Adosh Kumar, director general of artillery, said on Friday.

Delivering the 'Gen S F Rodrigues Memorial Lecture on Non-Contact Warfare: Capability Building - Imperatives for the Indian Army', lieutenant general Kumar argued that decisive military action no longer requires direct contact on the battlefield. Instead, modern conflicts increasingly unfold in the shadows through proxy actors, cyberattacks, information operations and long-range precision strikes.

"For decades, our western adversary has employed strategies short of open war, di...