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Security and sovereignty of a nation is paramount. It is maintained through its military. The war fighting has been ever evolving, and technology has played a determinant role in the outcomes of all the major wars or military operations. Hitherto the technology has been ever evolving and the rate of evolution too has been almost exponential. The ongo-ing Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars have shown to the world that technology will play a dominant role in the maintenance of the aim of the war and determining the outcome. The wars have become very dynamic and, threats keep evolving right through the war to the extent that the cardinal principle of ‘surprise’ of war has remained sacro-sanct.
Additive Manufacturing (AM) or 3D Printing is a niche disruptive technology. It is termed as Digital Manufacturing (DM) as well. This technology has greatly impacted the war zone where the workshops have come right beside the fighting men and machinery. The AM technology has opened up humongous possibilities to keep the machines operational, and tilt the outcome of the operations and the war. The military with an edge of applying AM will have an edge in the outcome too. The Indian military has to examine this tech-nology and apply it in a manner that the entire military is AM enabled! The paper aims at apprising the military practitioners at home to embrace AM at the right earnest.