{"id":986309,"date":"2026-01-19T08:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986309"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:44:36","slug":"why-cyber-power-matters-for-indias-future-deterrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/19\/why-cyber-power-matters-for-indias-future-deterrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Why cyber power matters for India\u2019s future deterrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s future conflicts are unlikely to begin with visible mobilisation or overt military strikes. Instead, they are more likely to unfold quietly through cyber intrusions that disrupt power grids, paralyse railway networks, compromise military communications and manipulate information flows. In contemporary warfare, cyber operations have become central to deterrence, shaping strategic outcomes well before kinetic force is employed. Yet India\u2019s military cyber posture remains structurally misaligned with this reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s future conflicts are unlikely to begin with visible mobilisation or overt military strikes. Instead, they are more likely to unfold quietly through cyber intrusions that disrupt power grids, paralyse railway networks, compromise military communications and manipulate information flows. In contemporary warfare, cyber operations have become central to deterrence, shaping strategic outcomes well before kinetic force is employed. Yet India\u2019s military cyber posture remains structurally misaligned with this reality.<\/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":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986309","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=986309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}