Senior Indian Army generals, who grew up before smartphones became a part of our daily lives, are blundering in scrapping as “too costly” the Rs 5,000-crore project to indigenously design and develop a Battlefield Management System (BMS).
More tech-savvy junior officers understand the importance of the BMS, which will provide frontline combat soldiers with a real-time tactical picture of the battlefield to help them deal with “the fog of war”. But generals call the shots, and now a defence ministry okay is all that is needed to cancel this promising ...
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First Published: Mon, December 04 2017. 22:43 IST
