[ISN] Indian Army fears China attack by 2017

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\03\27\story_27-3-2009_pg7_45

Daily Times
March 27, 2009

LAHORE: The Indian military fears a ‘Chinese aggression’ in less than a 
decade, the Hindustan Times has reported, and claimed that a secret 
exercise – called ‘Divine Matrix’ – by the army’s military operations 
directorate has visualised a war scenario with the nuclear-armed 
neighbour before 2017.

“A misadventure by China is very much within the realm of possibility 
with Beijing trying to position itself as the only power in the region. 
There will be no nuclear warfare but a short, swift war that could have 
menacing consequences for India,” said an army officer, who was part of 
the three-day war games that ended on Wednesday. In the military’s 
assessment, based on a six-month study of various scenarios before the 
war games, “China would rely on information warfare (IW) to bring India 
down on its knees before launching an offensive”, the report claimed.

The war games saw generals raising concerns about the IW battalions of 
the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) carrying out hacker attacks for 
military espionage, intelligence collection, paralysing communication 
systems, compromising airport security, inflicting damage on the banking 
system and disabling power grids. “We need to spend more on developing 
information warfare capability,” he said. The war games dispelled the 
notion that China would take at least one year for a substantial 
military build-up across India’s northeastern frontiers. “The Tibetan 
infrastructure has been improved considerably. “The PLA can now launch 
an assault very quickly, without any warning,” said the officer.

“The military believes that China would have swamped Tibet with sweeping 
demographic changes in the medium term. For the purposes of Divine 
Matrix, China would call Dalai Lama for rapprochement and neutralise 
him. The top brass also brainstormed over India’s options in case 
Pakistan joined the war too. Another apprehension was that Myanmar and 
Bangladesh would align with China in the future geo-strategic 
environment,” said the Hindustan Times.


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