Lecture on future warfare

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 18

The Department of Defence and National Security Studies, PU, organised a special lecture on ‘Understanding future warfare’ by Lt Gen PJS Pannu here today.

Dr Jaskaran Singh Waraich, Chairperson of the department, introduced the theme and the speaker to the audience.

Pannu spoke about how human beings have been the most dangerous species to ever exist on the planet. To understand the nature of war, we must first understand the nature of human beings. “In the course of their evolution, human beings have become involved in a conflict against nature and are trying to outsource this conflict via employment of machines,” he said.

Pannu tried to establish a link between various industrial revolutions and generations of warfare. He said: “Any nation which fails to understand the fourth generation warfare will get defeated.” The lecture was attended by various faculty members, serving and retired armed forces officers.