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Technology is changing at pace as AI swamps our systems, nature of war and conflict is changing, India has set off a year of reforms in MOD, Integrated Theatre Commands are being ushered in and India is rising. A Vikisit Bharat is impossible without a Surakshit Bharat. In the light of these developments, Lt Gen Raj Shukla and I discussed in detail the reforms needed in MOD – structurally, financially, technologically. While the need for change is well understood, the attitude seems to be – I WILL NOT CHANGE…RATHER I DO NOT NEED CHANGE…IT IS ONLY THR OTHER MAN WHO NEEDS CHANGE…a sort of I AM OK YOU ARE NOT OK KIND OF A SYNDROME! The biggest reform challenge in MOD will be attitudinal in nature. Can our unique Politico-Bureaucratic-Military compact rise up to the challenge?