{"id":119160,"date":"2021-10-13T14:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T21:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119160"},"modified":"2021-10-13T14:54:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T21:54:26","slug":"bjps-subramanian-swamy-asks-sri-lanka-to-gear-up-for-cyberwarfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/13\/bjps-subramanian-swamy-asks-sri-lanka-to-gear-up-for-cyberwarfare\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP\u2019s Subramanian Swamy asks Sri Lanka to gear up for cyberwarfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adaderanaenglish.s3.amazonaws.com\/1634154059-Subramanian-Swamy-of-BJP-calls-on-President-Rajapaksa-L.jpg\" alt=\"BJP\u2019s Subramanian Swamy asks Sri Lanka to gear up for cyberwarfare \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka must gear up for cyber warfare by augmenting its capabilities to meet the demands of 21st-century national security, India\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visiting Sri Lanka on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s invitation for Navarathri celebrations at his official residence, Temple Trees, Mr. Swamy spoke at the Institute of National Security Studies \u2013 a think tank established under Sri Lanka\u2019s Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Security in the 21st century is not about advancing armies or aeroplanes flying above\u2026 and no country is big or small. All countries are superpowers or nothing, according to their preparation to meet cyber warfare,\u201d he stated, underscoring the need for countries to work out their objectives, priorities, strategy, and resource mobilisation that he termed the four pillars\u201d of national security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to questions later, Mr. Swamy shared his perspective on the civil war, the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi by the LTTE; the current tensions between India and China and a likely war\u201d between the powers, and emerging geopolitical dynamics. On Indo-Lanka relations, he observed that Sri Lanka had got a raw deal\u201d from India since the Rajapaksa government came to power, and it was sought to be corrected\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, Mr. Swamy called on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and advocated a strong, friendly relationship between Sri Lanka and India,\u201d a statement from the President\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: The Hindu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka must gear up for cyber warfare by augmenting its capabilities to meet the demands of 21st-century national security, India\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Rajya Sabha member Subramanian Swamy said on Wednesday. Visiting Sri Lanka on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s invitation for Navarathri celebrations at his official residence, Temple Trees, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}