Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi said that Operation Sindoor was different from any traditional mission and was similar to the game of chess, because “we did not know” what would be the next trick of the enemy.
In his address at a ceremony in IIT-Madras, he recalled India’s complications of India’s decisive military action on the terrorist infrastructure in May in response to the 22 April Pahalgam attack.
Using the metaphor of the game of chess, General Dwivedi said, “We played chess in Operation Sindoor. So what does it mean? It means that we did not know what the enemy’s next move will be and what we are going to do. We call it gray zone.”
He said, “Gray zone means we are not doing traditional operations. But we are doing something that is slightly different from the traditional operation.”
He said, “Traditional operation means, take everything, take everything you have. And if you can come back, come back, otherwise stay there. It is called a traditional way. Here, gray zone means any activity in every field, we are talking about this and we taught us that this is the gray zone.”
The army chief said, “Therefore, we were walking the chess moves and that (enemy) was also going on chess. Somewhere we were beating him and beating it, then we were trying to defeat it even at the risk of losing our lives, but life is like that.”
In May, under Operation Sindoor, the Indian Air Force launched accurate attacks on several bases associated with terrorist groups in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
The objective of this campaign was to destroy the terrorist infrastructure and inactive major terrorists in view of the Pahalgam attack.
