NEW DELHI: "
Indian Army on Wednesday night carried out
surgical strikes to wipe out terror launch pads across the Line of Control (
LoC) in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK)," Lt General
Ranbir Singh
(DGMO) said on Thursday in a press briefing.
The
option of surgical strikes was taken
in the wake of increase in infiltration bids , the DGMO said. Terrorists had begun gathering in large numbers along the LoC with the objective of crossing the border and targeting locations in Jammu and Kashmir, as well as other metros. In such a scenario surgical strikes was considered the best option to deal with the threat.
So what is a surgical strike?For starters, it is not a war or a call for it. Surgical strikes are military operations undertaken by forces across the world to move on the offensive, hit enemy targets and installations, and return to primary positions - all with lightening speed and with the added precaution of suffering limited casualty.
Surgical strikes require not just detailed and exhaustive planning but need to be carried out with absolute precision to achieve the objective of taking down targets with either no or minimal collateral damage.
Although details of its most recent surgical strike are still emerging, the Indian Army's strike inside Myanmar in June took 70 commandos all of 40 minutes to kill 38 Naga insurgents.
Globally too, millitary forces of several nations rely on such operations to eliminate immediate threats when diplomatic and all other non-millitary channels do not bear fruit.
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