The four-day conflict between India and Pakistan revealed warfare’s dual revolutions: advanced strike systems and sophisticated information operations that aided both sides to target the other deep behind enemy lines without crossing physical borders. Both militaries deployed drones, standoff weapons and automated air defences, while simultaneously waging battles over perception and reality on the digital battlefield. Markaz Taiba, the Lashkar-e-Taiba’s (LeT) training centre, after it was damaged by a precision strike on Wednesday. (ANI) The conflict— the first between the nuclear-armed neighbours since 1999 — marked the combat debut of multiple advanced systems that circumvented conventional confrontations. Pakistan used Turkish-origin armed drones to target 36 locations simultaneously across a 900-kilometer frontier and deployed Chinese-made PL-15 beyond visual range air-to-air missiles fired from JF-17 fighter jets against India for the first time. India countered with its own firsts aided by an years-long effort by the government to enhance the nation’s air defence capabilities. S-400 air defence systems, Akash surface-to-air missiles, Barak 8 defences, and anti-drone technologies ringfenced Indian territory and repelled the Pakistan’s air offensive. In …