{"id":1027571,"date":"2026-08-10T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027571"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:50:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:20:58","slug":"ai-information-warfare-cyber-experts-could-join-territorial-army-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/10\/ai-information-warfare-cyber-experts-could-join-territorial-army-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, information warfare, cyber experts could join Territorial Army soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Advanced discussions are underway in the defence ministry to exponentially expand the Territorial Army&#8217;s mandate to bring in experts on emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, sources aware of the matter told ET. <\/p>\n<p>The issue was discussed at a high-level meeting in the ministry recently, with the Army seeking to expand the role of Territorial Army &#8211; a part-time military reserve force consisting of volunteers who retain their civilian jobs &#8211; to infuse technical talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Advanced discussions are underway in the defence ministry to exponentially expand the Territorial Army&#8217;s mandate to bring in experts on emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, sources aware of the matter told ET. The issue was discussed at a high-level meeting in the ministry recently, with the Army seeking to expand the role of Territorial Army &#8211; a part-time military reserve force consisting of volunteers who retain their civilian jobs &#8211; to infuse technical talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027599,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027571\/revisions\/1027599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}