NEW DELHI: The Army’s new project called `Udbhav’ to integrate India’s ancient strategic acumen with contemporary military practices to address modern security challenges and prepare for the battles of the future was formally launched by defence minister Rajnath Singh here on Saturday.
The Army’s drive to reclaim “profound Indic heritage” in statecraft, strategy, diplomacy and warfare derived from ancient treatises like Arthashastra (Kautilya), Nitisara (Kamandaka) and The Kural (Thiruvalluvar) as well as centuries-old military campaigns is in tune with the government’s directive to “Indianise” the armed forces and junk “vestiges of the colonial era”, as was reported by TOI last month.
Project Udbhav has already triggered some criticism by certain sections of serving military officers and veterans, who question its utility in modern-day digitized battlefields of drones and smart bombs, space and cyber warfare, ballistic missiles and supersonic/hypersonic weapons. “With China posing a clear and present strategic danger, the Army’s entire unwavering focus should be on modernization and training,” a senior officer said, on the condition of anonymity.
But the defence ministry and the Army were all gung-ho about Project Udbhav, which translates into “origin” or “genesis”, during the inauguration of the Military Heritage Festival by Singh, along with General Manoj Pande, on Saturday. “It embodies the Indian Army's sincere endeavour to revisit the roots of India's military thoughts,” deputy chief (strategy) Lt-General Tarun Kumar Aich said.
“The project’s obxtive is to synthesize ancient wisdom with contemporary military practices, forging a unique and holistic approach to address modern security challenges. It is a visionary initiative by the Indian Army that seeks to integrate age-old wisdom with contemporary military pedagogy,” he added.
Arthashastra, for instance, underscores the importance of strategic alliances and diplomacy, aligning with modern military practices such as international cooperation and soft power projection.
“Similarly, the wisdom of Thirukkural, the classical Tamil text authored by Thiruvalluvar, advocates ethical conduct in all endeavours, including warfare. This aligns with modern military codes of ethics of just war and principles of the Geneva Convention,” Lt-Gen Aich said.
From Chandragupta Maurya and Ashoka to the Cholas and the Ahom Kingdom, the Army says a deep study of prominent leaders and battles of yore is also equally important. “The tenets expounded by our ancient knowledge system were also put to practise by Chhatrapati Shivaji and Maharaja Ranjit Singh who defeated the numerically superior Mughal and Afghan invaders,” Lt-Gen Aich said.
While Shivaji’s use of guerrilla tactics is well acknowledged, his foresightedness in the construction of a series of naval forts along the western seaboard to ward off external threats is less known, he added.
The MoD, in turn, said Project Udbhav would emerge as the fulcrum of “indigenous strategic developments” as well as help develop “a strategic vocabulary and conceptual frxwork” rooted in India’s philosophy and culture.
“It sets the stage for a robust, progressive and future-ready Indian Army that not only resonates with the nation’s historical military sagacity, but is also attuned to the demands and dynamics of contemporary warfare and diplomacy,” a MoD statement said.
Nutz Nutz
soon BJP will give army bow and arrow as well
很快人民黨也會給軍隊配備弓箭。
Bengaluru
What's wrong in getting addons which improve efficiency, instead of aping west simply
獲得能提高效率的插件,而不是簡單地模仿西方,這有什么錯。
Anchit Bhatnagar
This project is about learning the art of war and not about abandoning or researching new technologies. It's sad to see so many ignorant fools ranting about bow and arrow without understanding the gist of the article
Truth is bitter
Experience of thousands of years will help in strategic planning, see how china uses its ancient’ art of war’ book to win battle of perception…
gozoukuae
very nice.....when China smoothly "walks-in", send our army with bow and arrow to counter them....
很好……當中國順利“介入”時,派我們的軍隊帶著弓箭去反擊他們……
paarth
There is no past. India was never a great military power. We had invasion after invasion. The greek invasion, the Islamic invasions, the moghal invasions, the east India company. And ignoring the growth of science and tech will be disaster for our defence. The RSS is really stupid. They sit in Nagpur and without any higher education or enlisting in the army they try to decide what syllabus should be there in the army and what the defence forces should read. Modi is really defective in his attitude towards higher education and that is going to hurt India in the future. Pity because the opposition is useless as well.
James Serrao
Ancient Indian warcraft??? what a joke!!! If that was any good how come India was dominated by the Mughals and then by the British, French and Portuguese for hundreds of years?? Common sense is not so common among these Hindu nationalists. And dont blame foreign invaders. Blame greedy Hindus ready to take 1 rupee to lift a finger just to do their own job. That is a fact today all over India. Hindu Politicians, Bureaucrats, police, all nothing but extremely corrupt. All an invading army has to do is bribe these bhakts with some money in their foreign bank accounts.
Indian politicians will do anything for power and people saying ‘yes’ in these comments are their target audience…idiots.
印度政客會為了權力做任何事,而這些評論中表示同意的人是他們的目標受眾,白癡。
Rational Corp
Indegenous BS will be integrated into the Indian army to defeat modern armies. All guns will be replaced with hi tech, Vedic bows and arrows. Rafael's will be replaced with Bulbul powered pushpak vimaans, firing hot coal from its back side.
Chola
And we replace tanks with chariot and xall them NAMO-rath. China will be impressed and give up Galwan
我們用二輪戰(zhàn)車代替坦克,將其命名為NAMO-rath。中國會被震驚,然后放棄加爾萬。
Anjan Kesh
The vaanar sena from the sangh parivar will fight the Chinese onslaught of hitech electronic warfare.
來自人民黨的猴子大軍將對抗中國高科技電子戰(zhàn)的攻擊。
Afterlife Jallandhar
There were some really brave and clever warriors in our history, some real, some mythical. We are kidding ourselves if we believe that our past history is a beacon for the future endeavours. At least for the last 1000 years we have been colonized. Instead of fighting back we collaborated with the invaders. Married off our sisters and daughters with them and now make raomantic movies like 'Akbar and Jodha' about that. Mahatma Gandhi who fought a great empire with non-violent means and succeeded, only to die at the hands of a religious fanatic. Godse is a hero and Mahatma a zero. These high fluting military men are dancing to the tune of a nationalist Hindu government. The names mentioned like Chankya were great and appropriate for their times. It is like the Europeans trying to copy 16th century Machiavelli methods in the 21st century.
Balram Rajak
we must learn the great value and ethics from our great grand parents and their family values to be Bhartiya and rejuvenate again after 1000 years of cruelty by foreign invaders like Gajni, Gaji, taimur, Alexander and British.Our ancestors knew to sacrifice for mother land and survive to refight and regain our own land and culture and our own Nation for Hindus The greater Bharat.A well planned strategy still continue to destroy all these by invaders so to re-start again and begin once more our ancient practices we should read our ancient great books .a great initiative by Hindu government.
Santosh Kumar
Suck it up fellows ! Politics aside, Bharath will move forward with sanathana dharma principles at the center. People of all faiths will benefit under this dharma umbrella
BS Chauhan
Hardened Indian Army knows of 2023, how to fight the war. It doesn’t listen to politicians ideas as they had to defend the nation and themselves. They only follow the orders of their officers. Remember Field Marshal Manik Show refused to fight the war in 1971 as per the orders of Indira Gandhi at the time of her choice. He told her the months of rains are not fit to enter East Pak and going for war needs preparation and planning. I will follow your orders when I am prepared.
JJ
Corrupt Hindus are India's own worst enemy and you find them in every government institution.
腐敗的印度教徒是印度自己最大的敵人,每個政府機構都能找到他們。
K Sridhar
Wonder which idiot in the defense ministry thought up this ridiculous idea!!!! This idea is certainly not from the military hierarchy who are forced to follow what the ministry dictates. Todays enemies don't have any ethics, morals or principles. Wars, today, are not "dharma udh" and the defense minister is fooling himself, the military and the people of this country.
jayantdesai
The ignorant people have no brains to understand the strategy. It is not about weapons, but how and where to use them. Using of chess in war, making alliances, choosing time and place, ethics of war, . …..and hope there is a strategy of dealing with terrorists.
Chola
I think Mudiji got Thirukural wrong just like sengol.
我認為莫迪吉對Thirukural(古代泰米爾詩歌)的理解和sengol一樣是錯誤的。
User sidhu
Greek came Porus lost. Muslim invaders came, result, a loss. Total capitulation during Mughal rule. The British came from thousands of miles away, worse capitulation happened. Area lost as Pakistan and Bangladesh. POK lost. Akasa Chin lost. Mount Kalish lost. Most recently no man's area was lost. India is a classic story of defeat.
Donald Moss
This is sure to invite idiotic comments from so called ' educated ' nitwits ! As the saying goes " empty vessels make the loudest sounds" ! Jai Bharat
soon BJP will give army bow and arrow as well
很快人民黨也會給軍隊配備弓箭。
What's wrong in getting addons which improve efficiency, instead of aping west simply
獲得能提高效率的插件,而不是簡單地模仿西方,這有什么錯。
This project is about learning the art of war and not about abandoning or researching new technologies. It's sad to see so many ignorant fools ranting about bow and arrow without understanding the gist of the article
這個項目旨在學習戰(zhàn)爭藝術,而不是放棄或研究新技術。這么多無知的傻瓜,在不理解這篇文章要點的情況下胡說什么弓箭,這種情況真讓人難過。
Experience of thousands of years will help in strategic planning, see how china uses its ancient’ art of war’ book to win battle of perception…
幾千年的經(jīng)驗將有助于戰(zhàn)略規(guī)劃,看看中國如何使用其古老的《孫子兵法》書籍來贏得認知戰(zhàn)……
就連希特勒也試圖了解古代印度的戰(zhàn)爭技術……
里面一定有些道理。
此外,我們必須努力建立像以色列這樣的戰(zhàn)爭后備軍,因為我們兩邊都有敵人,內(nèi)部也有綠色病毒。
very nice.....when China smoothly "walks-in", send our army with bow and arrow to counter them....
很好……當中國順利“介入”時,派我們的軍隊帶著弓箭去反擊他們……
There is no past. India was never a great military power. We had invasion after invasion. The greek invasion, the Islamic invasions, the moghal invasions, the east India company. And ignoring the growth of science and tech will be disaster for our defence. The RSS is really stupid. They sit in Nagpur and without any higher education or enlisting in the army they try to decide what syllabus should be there in the army and what the defence forces should read. Modi is really defective in his attitude towards higher education and that is going to hurt India in the future. Pity because the opposition is useless as well.
(印度)沒有過去。印度從來就不是一個軍事強國。我們遭受了一次又一次的入侵。希臘入侵,伊斯蘭入侵,莫臥兒入侵,東印度公司。忽視科學技術的發(fā)展將給我們的國防帶來災難。RSS真的很愚蠢。他們坐在那格浦爾,沒有受過高等教育,也沒有參軍,他們試圖決定軍隊應該采用什么教學大綱,國防部隊應該讀什么書。莫迪對高等教育的態(tài)度確實有缺陷,這將在未來傷害印度。可憐,因為反對派也沒用。
Ancient Indian warcraft??? what a joke!!! If that was any good how come India was dominated by the Mughals and then by the British, French and Portuguese for hundreds of years?? Common sense is not so common among these Hindu nationalists. And dont blame foreign invaders. Blame greedy Hindus ready to take 1 rupee to lift a finger just to do their own job. That is a fact today all over India. Hindu Politicians, Bureaucrats, police, all nothing but extremely corrupt. All an invading army has to do is bribe these bhakts with some money in their foreign bank accounts.
古印度的戰(zhàn)爭藝術??真是個笑話!! 如果它有什么好處,為什么印度先是被莫臥兒王朝統(tǒng)治,然后又被英國、法國和葡萄牙統(tǒng)治了幾百年? 在這些印度教民族主義者當中,常識并不那么普遍。而且不要責怪外國侵略者。要怪就怪貪婪的印度人,他們只要能完成自己的工作(賺錢),愿意只拿1盧比。這是當今全印度的事實。印度政客、官僚、警察,除了極度腐敗什么都不是。入侵軍隊所要做的就是用這些人的外國銀行賬戶里的錢賄賂他們。
Make baba ramdev chief of the army and then he can fight against the west with yoga.
讓拉姆德夫大師(斯瓦米·蘭德福,印度的斯瓦米和著名的瑜伽教師)當陸軍司令,然后他就可以用瑜伽對抗西方了。
印度政客會為了權力做任何事,而這些評論中表示同意的人是他們的目標受眾,白癡。
Indegenous BS will be integrated into the Indian army to defeat modern armies. All guns will be replaced with hi tech, Vedic bows and arrows. Rafael's will be replaced with Bulbul powered pushpak vimaans, firing hot coal from its back side.
他們會把本土的扯淡納入印度軍隊,以擊敗現(xiàn)代軍隊。所有的槍炮都將被高科技的吠陀弓箭取代。陣風戰(zhàn)機將被以Bulbul(印度常見的一種鳥)驅(qū)動的pushpak vimaans(印度神話中的傳說中的飛行器)取代,從其背面發(fā)射熾熱的煤炭。
And we replace tanks with chariot and xall them NAMO-rath. China will be impressed and give up Galwan
我們用二輪戰(zhàn)車代替坦克,將其命名為NAMO-rath。中國會被震驚,然后放棄加爾萬。
The vaanar sena from the sangh parivar will fight the Chinese onslaught of hitech electronic warfare.
來自人民黨的猴子大軍將對抗中國高科技電子戰(zhàn)的攻擊。
There were some really brave and clever warriors in our history, some real, some mythical. We are kidding ourselves if we believe that our past history is a beacon for the future endeavours. At least for the last 1000 years we have been colonized. Instead of fighting back we collaborated with the invaders. Married off our sisters and daughters with them and now make raomantic movies like 'Akbar and Jodha' about that. Mahatma Gandhi who fought a great empire with non-violent means and succeeded, only to die at the hands of a religious fanatic. Godse is a hero and Mahatma a zero. These high fluting military men are dancing to the tune of a nationalist Hindu government. The names mentioned like Chankya were great and appropriate for their times. It is like the Europeans trying to copy 16th century Machiavelli methods in the 21st century.
我們歷史上有一些非常勇敢和聰明的戰(zhàn)士,有些是真實的,有些是虛構的。如果我們相信過去的歷史是未來努力的燈塔,那我們就是在自欺欺人。至少在過去的1000年里,我們一直被殖民。我們非但沒有反擊,反而與侵略者勾結。把我們的姐妹和女兒嫁給他們,現(xiàn)在以此拍攝愛情電影,比如《阿克巴和喬達》。圣雄甘地用非暴力手段戰(zhàn)勝了一個偉大的帝國,并取得了成功,卻死于一個宗教狂熱分子之手。女神是英雄,圣雄是個懦夫。這些高調(diào)的軍人正隨著民族主義印度政府的曲調(diào)起舞。Chankya這樣的名字是偉大的,適合他們的時代。這就像歐洲人試圖在21世紀復制16世紀的馬基雅維利的方法一樣。
we must learn the great value and ethics from our great grand parents and their family values to be Bhartiya and rejuvenate again after 1000 years of cruelty by foreign invaders like Gajni, Gaji, taimur, Alexander and British.Our ancestors knew to sacrifice for mother land and survive to refight and regain our own land and culture and our own Nation for Hindus The greater Bharat.A well planned strategy still continue to destroy all these by invaders so to re-start again and begin once more our ancient practices we should read our ancient great books .a great initiative by Hindu government.
我們必須從我們的曾祖父母和他們的家庭價值觀中學習偉大的價值觀和道德,成為印度人,在被迦吉、迦吉、泰繆爾、亞歷山大和英國等外國侵略者殘酷統(tǒng)治1000年后重新煥發(fā)活力。我們的祖先知道要為祖國犧牲,生存下來,重新獲得我們自己的土地、文化和我們自己的國家。一個精心策劃的戰(zhàn)略仍然會繼續(xù)摧毀所有這些入侵者,所以重新開始,重新開始我們的古老習俗,我們應該閱讀我們古老的偉大書籍,這是印度政府的偉大倡議。
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Suck it up fellows ! Politics aside, Bharath will move forward with sanathana dharma principles at the center. People of all faiths will benefit under this dharma umbrella
忍忍吧,伙計們! 拋開政治不談,巴拉特將以永恒佛法的原則為中心向前邁進。所有信仰的人都將在這個佛法的保護傘下受益。
Hardened Indian Army knows of 2023, how to fight the war. It doesn’t listen to politicians ideas as they had to defend the nation and themselves. They only follow the orders of their officers. Remember Field Marshal Manik Show refused to fight the war in 1971 as per the orders of Indira Gandhi at the time of her choice. He told her the months of rains are not fit to enter East Pak and going for war needs preparation and planning. I will follow your orders when I am prepared.
久經(jīng)沙場的印度軍隊知道2023年該如何打仗。它不聽政客的想法,因為他們必須保衛(wèi)國家和自己。他們只服從軍官的命令。記住,陸軍元帥Manik Show在1971年拒絕了英迪拉·甘地的命令,當時她選擇參戰(zhàn)。他告訴她,幾個月的降雨導致不適合進入東巴基斯坦,打仗需要準備和計劃。我準備好了就會聽從你的命令。
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Corrupt Hindus are India's own worst enemy and you find them in every government institution.
腐敗的印度教徒是印度自己最大的敵人,每個政府機構都能找到他們。
Wonder which idiot in the defense ministry thought up this ridiculous idea!!!! This idea is certainly not from the military hierarchy who are forced to follow what the ministry dictates. Todays enemies don't have any ethics, morals or principles. Wars, today, are not "dharma udh" and the defense minister is fooling himself, the military and the people of this country.
不知道是國防部哪個白癡想出的這個荒謬的主意!!!! 這個想法當然不是來自軍隊的等級制度,他們被迫服從國防部的命令。今天的敵人沒有任何倫理、道德或原則。今天的戰(zhàn)爭不是“佛法”,國防部長在欺騙自己、軍隊和這個國家的人民。
The ignorant people have no brains to understand the strategy. It is not about weapons, but how and where to use them. Using of chess in war, making alliances, choosing time and place, ethics of war, . …..and hope there is a strategy of dealing with terrorists.
無知的人沒有理解戰(zhàn)略的頭腦。問題不在于武器,而在于如何以及在哪里使用武器。在戰(zhàn)爭中使用國際象棋,結盟,選擇時間和地點,戰(zhàn)爭倫理……希望有一個對付恐怖分子的策略。
Ancient strategy should be treated as myth and modern is reality. Myth can't be promoted over reality.
古代戰(zhàn)略是神話,現(xiàn)代戰(zhàn)略是現(xiàn)實。神話不能凌駕于現(xiàn)實之上。
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I think Mudiji got Thirukural wrong just like sengol.
我認為莫迪吉對Thirukural(古代泰米爾詩歌)的理解和sengol一樣是錯誤的。
Greek came Porus lost. Muslim invaders came, result, a loss. Total capitulation during Mughal rule. The British came from thousands of miles away, worse capitulation happened. Area lost as Pakistan and Bangladesh. POK lost. Akasa Chin lost. Mount Kalish lost. Most recently no man's area was lost. India is a classic story of defeat.
希臘人來了,波羅斯輸了。穆斯林入侵者來了,結果又輸了。莫臥兒統(tǒng)治時期,徹底投降。英國人來自千里之外,發(fā)生了更糟糕的投降。輸?shù)袅税突固购兔霞永瓏貐^(qū)。輸?shù)舭涂乜耸裁谞?。輸?shù)舭⒖速悮J。輸?shù)艨ɡ采?。最近,輸?shù)袅藷o人區(qū)。印度是一個典型的失敗故事。
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This is sure to invite idiotic comments from so called ' educated ' nitwits ! As the saying goes " empty vessels make the loudest sounds" ! Jai Bharat
此事肯定會招來所謂“受過教育”的笨蛋的愚蠢評論! 俗話說“空瓶子亂響”! 巴拉特必勝。
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