01490nam a22001457a 4500 518509 518509 210928b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Isser, Rajesh 29577 Asymmetric competition ahead for Indian air power Journal of Defiance Studies 15(1), Jan-Mar, 2021: p.3-26 This article deliberates on some ‘disruptive’ issues that will affect employment, doctrine, force development and the very future of exclusive manned air power. Currently, causing asymmetry on the battlefield is considered a virtue rather than a weaker adversary’s option. Pakistan’s strategy against India and Chinese anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) are examples of cheaper but effective means. Driven by rapid advances in technology and confluence of emerging scientific capabilities, warfighting’s character is changing. The article discusses a myriad of issues, like risk-taking with manned/unmanned platforms, futuristic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) employment, effectiveness of traditional air support in battle, airspace control, applicability of the observe–orient–decide–act (OODA) loop and multi-domain and fresh doctrinal approaches, among others. The current imbroglio on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is also briefly explored for asymmetries that both sides, namely, India and China, will aim for in air power employment. – Reproduced Journal of Defiance Studies AIR POWER - INDIA AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 392578 IIPA IIPA 2021-09-28 15(1), Jan-Mar, 2021: p.3-26 AR125643 2021-09-28 AR