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Copyright 2012, United Service Institution of India, New Delhi

ISBN: 978-93-81411-72-8

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Life flits by Yudhishtira, and waits for neither you nor me. In life, there is no time for hesitation and too much deliberation. They serve no purpose but to divide the mind against itself. The thing is to act, swiftly, as the time demands.

Lord Krishna to Yudhishtira In Mahabharata

PREFACE

It is said that only thing constant is change. This can be restated that in contemporary times the only thing constant is EXPONENTIAL rate of change. This is most tellingly revealed by Thomas L. Friedman in his scholarly book, The World is Flat, published in 2006. To me this was an amazing revelation as I perused the book, particularly since I prided myself in keeping abreast with the latest.

This was also the period when the real time ISR was culminating in successful target engagement of fleeting, small targets as a routine cycle. This was a significant capability for air power which was being routinely exploited by Israel and USA.

The World is Flat, meant a new horizontal interconnected structure of the global economy brought about by Digitisation, Internet and interdependent world economy- A result of MNCs quest for higher productivity and resultant profits. A look at this flat world transforming the modern battlefield, revealed a tremendously transformed battle space. The militaries that embraced the modern technologies to exploit it for warfare, in effect, shrank the famous OODA loop of Col Boyd. This resulted in real time sensor to shooter cycle. The OODA loop which in past was typically in weeks and months was now reduced to minutes. Where were we in modernising our military? This question led me to undertake this research in a serious manner in 2010.

The scope of such a work can be too vast. I restricted myself to operational aspects of air power something which had been my major occupation in my four decades of Air Force service. Also, having authored and researched books and host of articles earlier, I felt confident enough to undertake this mammoth task. Here too the field was too wide and some operational aspects, only a decade old. These were relatively new. The public literature on a subject of this nature is rare in most countries-USA being an exception. Therefore, the study extensively uses US experience, while attempting solutions to suit our needs. I am sanguine that Indian Air Force is well and truly on its path to transformation and the nature of information is such that ordinary citizens remain less informed. However, what I suggest is for an ideal Air Force to be as per my visualisation. This is in no way to suggest that Indian Air Force is not what it ought to be.

The book is the outcome of research alloted to me by USI under the Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee Chair.

-Author

ABBREVIATIONS

A D	:	Air Defence
ADA	:	Aeronautical Development Agency(India)
AFNET	:	Air Force Network(India)
ALATS	:	Advanced Laser Targeting System
ALO	:	Air Liaison Officer
A O C	:	Air Operations Centre
ASOC	:	Air Support Operation Centre
ATCAMS	:	Advanced Tactical Missiles
ATO	:	Air Tasking Order
AWS	:	Arrow Weapon System
AWACS	:	Airborne Warning and Control System
AWST	:	Aviation Week & Space Technology
BAI	:	Battlefield Air Interdiction
BAS	:	Battlefield Air Strike
BAT	:	Brilliant Anti Tank
BVR	:	Beyond Visual Range
CAOC	:	Combined Air Operations Centre
CAS	:	Close Air Support or Chief of Air Staff
CEP	:	Circular Error Probability
CENTCOM	:	Central Command
C I	:	Counter Insurgency
CNA	:	Computer Network Attack
CONUS	:	Continental United States
COIN	:	Counter Insurgency
CONOPS	:	Concept Of Operation
CSFO	:	Counter Surface Force Operation
DARPA	:	Defence Advanced Research Project Agency(USA)
DCGS	:	Distributed Common Ground System
DHS	:	Department of Homeland Security
DRDO	:	Defence Research Development Agency(India)
EP	:	External Pilot
EO	:	Electro-Optic
ERP	:	Enterprise Resource Planning
FAC	:	Forward Air Controller
FEBA	:	Forward Edge of Battle Area
FLOT	:	Forward Line of Own Troops
FMV	:	Full Motion Video
FSCL	:	Fire Support Co-ordination Line
GIG	:	Global Information Grid
GPS	:	Global Positioning System
GWAPS	:	Gulf War Air Power Summary
HPM	:	High Power Microwave
IACCS	:	Integrated Air Command & Control System
IADS	:	Integrated Air Defence System
IAF	:	Indian Air Force or Israeli Air Force
ICBM	:	Inter Continental Ballistic Missile
ICV	:	Infantry Combat Vehicle
IED	:	Internal Explosive Device
INS	:	Inertial Navigation System
IR	:	Infra Red
IP	:	Internal Pilot
ISR	:	Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance
IW	:	Information warfare. In USA- Irregular Warfare
JAAT	:	Joint Air Attack Team
JDAM	:	Joint Direct Attack Munitions
JFACC	:	Joint Force Air Component Commander
J FAC TSU	:	Joint FAC Training & Standardisation
J FCC NW	:	Joint Functional Component Command Network Warfare
JFEX	:	Joint Forces Exercise
JTAC

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