'Trusted orchestra': Army chief on Operation Sindoor; explains how teamwork crushed nine targets in 22 minutes

NEW DELHI: Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi talked about Operation Sindoor, drawing parallels with a "trusted orchestra" where "every musician played a simultaneous or a synergistic role.". Speaking at an event in the national capital on Saturday, he explained how the armed forces destroyed nine targets in 22 minutes, despite the time crunch.

"Operation Sindoor was a trusted orchestra where every musician played a simultaneous or a synergistic role. That is how in 22 minutes, we could destroy nine terrorist targets and, we could in 80 hours make sure that the battle comes to an end. But what is more important, there was no time for decision making, had we not visualised, and had we not trusted the entire team," the Army chief said.




He said that the response was not shaped "in the moment, but through years of imagining how intelligence, precision and technology could converge into action."

In an earlier address, echoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sentiments, he had said that Operation Sindoor was just a "trailer", hinting at a 2.0 version.

"On Operation Sindoor 1.0, I would say that the movie had not even begun, only a trailer was shown, and after 88 hours the trailer was over," he had said.

India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, destroying several terror facilities in Pakistan and PoK. Pakistan responded with its own offensives, prompting further Indian counterstrikes under the same operation. The nearly clash between the two nuclear-armed nations ended on May 10 after both sides reached an understanding.
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