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Days after a former Indian military commander praised the Pakistan Army’s media wing for employing outstanding strategy in the domain of hybrid warfare, a prominent cyber-intelligence specialist warned the India government of the threat the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) poses.
“If there is a Pakistani inter-services directorate as lethal as the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), it is, undoubtedly, the Inter-Services Public Relations,” Pukhraj Singh wrote in his latest article for The Print.
In his opinion, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was too late in spotting the danger after Facebook took down pages mending the public opinion ahead of Indian general elections.
Just like the former Indian commander, Lt-Gen (retd) Syed Ata Hussain who had acknowledged superiority of Pakistan Army’s media wing over its Indian counterpart, Singh also hailed the ISPR’s information warfare strategies especially in the showdown after Pulwama incident.
India’s ex-general hails ISPR for ‘outclass information war’
Last week, Lt-Gen (retd) Hussain had remarked during a speech that the Inter-Services Public Relations outclassed the Indian army in information war. “I want to give full marks to the ISPR for the information strategy it has played out,” he said while addressing the International Institute of Strategic Studies in UK on Thursday.
According to Singh, Pakistani Army has conducted a series of public wargames — Azm-e-Nau, meant to counter India’s ‘Cold Start’ doctrine. “With many successful iterations over the years, these exercises simulated massive mobilisations augmented by net-centric warfare, stopping short at the tactical nuclear weapons threshold,” he wrote.
“Interestingly, the said wargames treated the ISPR as the crucial pivot of conflict escalation and de-escalation. It was meant to undertake information operations, military deception and strategic communications – benignly dubbed as perception management in military parlance.
“This was a couple of years prior to ‘hybrid war’ becoming all the rage in the media circles, manifesting itself as the wildly successful Russian playbook against Georgia, Ukraine, and the US elections. From leveraging non-uniformed militias to undertaking disruptive cyber operations that seeded widescale paranoia and confusion, the Russians reintroduced the cognitive dimension to this emerging format of war.”
By F-16s or JF-17s, India can’t deny downing of jets: ISPR
Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff of the armed forces of Russia, is thought to be the key proponent of its hybrid war philosophy, first delivered as part of his address to the Academy of Military Sciences in March 2018. The contents of his lecture gained such prominence that the Western media now prefers to call it the ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’.
“With his carefully orchestrated social media spectacles during and after the Balakot escalation, Major General Asif Ghafoor, the incumbent director general of the ISPR, proved to be a formidable disruptor as well,” Singh maintained.
In the aftermath of violation of Pakistani airspace by India, there were times when ISPR’s Twitter shenanigans pushed the envelope and stole the initiative for a few minutes. They did put the Indian machinery in reactive mode, especially after the capture of a fighter pilot.
“If there is a Pakistani inter-services directorate as lethal as the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), it is, undoubtedly, the Inter-Services Public Relations,” Pukhraj Singh wrote in his latest article for The Print.
In his opinion, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was too late in spotting the danger after Facebook took down pages mending the public opinion ahead of Indian general elections.
Just like the former Indian commander, Lt-Gen (retd) Syed Ata Hussain who had acknowledged superiority of Pakistan Army’s media wing over its Indian counterpart, Singh also hailed the ISPR’s information warfare strategies especially in the showdown after Pulwama incident.
India’s ex-general hails ISPR for ‘outclass information war’
Last week, Lt-Gen (retd) Hussain had remarked during a speech that the Inter-Services Public Relations outclassed the Indian army in information war. “I want to give full marks to the ISPR for the information strategy it has played out,” he said while addressing the International Institute of Strategic Studies in UK on Thursday.
According to Singh, Pakistani Army has conducted a series of public wargames — Azm-e-Nau, meant to counter India’s ‘Cold Start’ doctrine. “With many successful iterations over the years, these exercises simulated massive mobilisations augmented by net-centric warfare, stopping short at the tactical nuclear weapons threshold,” he wrote.
“Interestingly, the said wargames treated the ISPR as the crucial pivot of conflict escalation and de-escalation. It was meant to undertake information operations, military deception and strategic communications – benignly dubbed as perception management in military parlance.
“This was a couple of years prior to ‘hybrid war’ becoming all the rage in the media circles, manifesting itself as the wildly successful Russian playbook against Georgia, Ukraine, and the US elections. From leveraging non-uniformed militias to undertaking disruptive cyber operations that seeded widescale paranoia and confusion, the Russians reintroduced the cognitive dimension to this emerging format of war.”
By F-16s or JF-17s, India can’t deny downing of jets: ISPR
Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff of the armed forces of Russia, is thought to be the key proponent of its hybrid war philosophy, first delivered as part of his address to the Academy of Military Sciences in March 2018. The contents of his lecture gained such prominence that the Western media now prefers to call it the ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’.
“With his carefully orchestrated social media spectacles during and after the Balakot escalation, Major General Asif Ghafoor, the incumbent director general of the ISPR, proved to be a formidable disruptor as well,” Singh maintained.
In the aftermath of violation of Pakistani airspace by India, there were times when ISPR’s Twitter shenanigans pushed the envelope and stole the initiative for a few minutes. They did put the Indian machinery in reactive mode, especially after the capture of a fighter pilot.
