General Bipin Rawat, India’s first Chief of Defence Staff, made a sort of unusual confession that we may never be able to bridge India’s “capability differential” on cyber operations, when compared to China. And that we “may not be able to fully catch up.” More in this Twitter thread by a journalist.
My hot take on it in three tweets:
Keeping in mind that a lot could get lost in translation from hacker-speak to general-speak, capability differential could become a self-defeating way to think about cyber. It’s fine to have a totally non-overlapping Venn diagram of cyber capabilites, vis-à-vis India & China. https://t.co/QnCeXWgv6K
— Pukhraj Singh (@RungRage) April 7, 2021
Gen. Rawat also endorses the general misassumption of cyber: imagining operations from the conventional precept of “contact.” Both the adversary & you only battle with ambiguity & uncertainty. Non-contact warfare understands that to some extent https://t.co/Ie9ujouB0m
— Pukhraj Singh (@RungRage) April 8, 2021
3/3 More here: “The Competition Continuum and noncontact operations in cyberspace” https://t.co/vvYGqO5tM7 The best articulation of this competition comes from @halvarflake as explained in the post.
— Pukhraj Singh (@RungRage) April 8, 2021