Deepfake Generals Are Now a Real Threat. Spot One in 30 Seconds
In the first three months of 2026, three Indian Army Chiefs were turned into deepfakes. The next one is being made right now. Here is how to spot it in 30 seconds.
May 14, 2026Defence, AI, and Strategic Tech
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In the first three months of 2026, three Indian Army Chiefs were turned into deepfakes. The next one is being made right now. Here is how to spot it in 30 seconds.
May 14, 2026
India placed the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance after Pahalgam. Months later, Pakistan approved its first AI Policy with a platform called IndusAI. Same river, two stories.
May 12, 2026
Your Wi-Fi router can already detect when someone walks through a wall. The same physics is quietly reshaping how modern wars will be fought. India cannot afford to be late.
May 11, 2026
Akashteer worked in Sindoor. Lattice is doing something larger in Epic Fury. The gap is not the hardware. It is the software architecture beneath each.
May 10, 2026Operation Sindoor put AI at the heart of the Indian Army's ISR cycle. Adversarial machine learning suggests every camera and tile in that cycle is also an attack surface.
May 9, 2026
In October 2025, the Indian Army signed its first contract for indigenous Software Defined Radios. Keeping them talking through jamming and rough terrain is where AI earns its keep.
May 8, 2026
India's first AI-enabled operation ran on heat maps, ECAS and TRINETRA, not on a person classifier. The shape of what India built — and didn't — is itself a doctrine.
May 6, 2026
On 1 January 2026, General Upendra Dwivedi, the Chief of the Army Staff, declared the year ahead as the Indian Army's Year of Networking and Data Centricity. The phrasing was deliberate. It followed 2…
May 3, 2026
F-INSAS handed the Indian infantry a rifle, helmet, and vest in 2022. By 2027, the real soldier upgrade is software — and most of it can ship today if the Army buys differently.
May 1, 2026
Ukrainian border guards used Clearview AI to identify over 10,000 people at checkpoints, including 50 linked to illegal child transfers. The operation combined facial recognition, drone imagery, and…
Apr 30, 2026
The Evolving Threat Landscape: Drones in Modern Warfare The 21st-century battlefield is increasingly defined by drones (UAS). They've altered tactics for reconnaissance, surveillance, and strikes, use…
Apr 29, 2026