The June issue introduces Pravin Sawhney’s long awaited book, The Last War: India’s Final Showdown with China. A treatise on the use of Artificial Intelligence in warfare, the book points out that India’s biggest disadvantage against China would be that it is preparing for the wrong war. The Military Balance below underlines the capabilities on both sides and how they will be employed in war. Of course, the war is not a certainty. The book prescribes steps that India must take to ensure that peace prevails between the nations. The book will be out in August.
Military Balance
Capabilities and How They Will be Used in War
| Indian Military | PLA |
| Integrated Battle Groups | Mission sets (Internet of Military Things) AI-backed Independent Wars |
| Air Land Battle | Information, Informatized & Intelligentized wars |
| Physical Battlespace | Physical, Virtual, Information & Cognitive Battlespaces |
| Three War Domains | Seven War Domains |
| Weapon Platforms | Capabilities’ Nodes |
| Attrition | Cognition |
| Tactical Operations | Campaign Operations |
| Battlefields | War Zone & Combat Zones |
| Two Front War | One Front Reinforced War (North Kashmir) |
| Imported Munitions | Indigenous Munitions |
| Deliberate Operations | Lightening Campaign |
| Limited War | War of Occupation |