Indian scientists believe today that, by 2025, global power will be defined by a nation's access to information, and that it will be in the national interest to develop new technologies for launching satellites (such as hypersonic missile technology). Indian air chief marshall Satish Kumar Sareen knows that "success in future wars will depend on the ability to deploy space-based resources for surveillance, battlefield management and communications." Indeed, the integrity military satellites can provide to national C3I architecture makes space indispensable to a strategy for deterrence. Some Indians believe that it is also in their best interests to stay at the forefront of technological development, where new-era warfare integrates space and electronic warfare. Yet, wrote Lt. Comdr. V.W. Karve, "history teaches us that better technology alone does not necessarily lead to victory. Rather, victory goes to the side that uses technology better or who can deny the enemy the use of his own technology."

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Lambakis, Steven. On the Edge of Earth: The Future of American Space Power. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. [ 5 quotes ] [ page 199 ]