Army Chief Bipin Rawat holding forth on army personnel using social media.

"In modern day warfare, info warfare is important and within it, we've started talking about Artificial Intelligence. If we have to leverage AI to our advantage we must engage through social media as a lot of what we wish to gain as part of AI will come via social media.


"We have received advice that we should advise our soldiers to stay away from social media. Can you deny a soldier from the possession of a smart-phone? If you can't prevent usage of smartphone, best to allow it, but important to have means of imposing discipline . Social media is here to stay, soldiers will use social media.  Our adversary will use social media for psychological warfare and deception, we must leverage it to our advantage."


In June, the army chief said jawans who take to social media to express their complaints could be punished as their act lowers the morale of those guarding the frontiers of the country.