Op Sindoor : A Military & Political Indian Victory !

Post Op Sindoor there is total propaganda, that the Pakis beat India due to their effective C4ISR systems integrated with satellites from China. That they downed our Rafael. Grounding the Indian Air Force completely. Sadly we are the conduits of these infamous narratives. Anyone who has served and attended integrated war games knows the threat of Pak AD systems. The Indian AF by the way does far more analysis and study before launching what they call air superiority missions. Every air craft that flies, is to a plan. In mission mode, the first step is suppression of enemies AD systems.

A false and mischievous article circulating on the social media is totally one sided,and giving credit to a nation ( Pakistan) that was beaten in the prevailing air conflict. India reached Lahore and Bahawalpur didn’t they ? Or is that false propaganda ? India also threatened Karachi and Rawalpindi. The Balochis used this opportunity in raising freedom flags. The Taliban acted as a threat in being. We( India ) had a reason for a just war. The world watched wanting India to teach the Pakis a lesson.

China will use Pak as a proxy. But if their AD and C4ISR were so distinguished then they wouldn’t lose the JF16s and their F16.

It’s a battle. We went into Pakistani air space that was fully prepared from the day Pahalgam happened. They had the time, the signatures of India’s impending attack, they knew that the medium would be air. And it happened.

It’s war, casualties will happen. There will be losses both sides. Here the war concentrated on destruction of terrorist infrastructure, not the destruction of military assets or civilian infrastructure. If we wanted our first strike could have easily been the HQs at Rawalpindi. But we didn’t want the escalation. We just wanted a response that was greater, reckonable and effective.

But what wins is the narrative. And we Indians lap up anything and everything posting things irresponsibly, running a embeded narrative against us.

We yet due to negative reporting, might win the war yet lose the narrative, due to wrong broadcasts and negative reporting .

Further, I must add, we went on full hog, first time across the IB too. Beating Pak AD, which the AF always claims as impregnable. And hit Lahore and Bahawalpur.

We ensured the Balochis act up and the Taliban also be a threat in being. The naval blockade and the threat to Karachi was the biggest signalling. All this without a real contact battle.

Therefore we can actually build our narrative around this and presume we achieved the military aim.

Will it stop terrorism? No it won’t. That’s because Pak itself is a victim of its own home grown terrorists. "Woh khud nahin janta kab kya hoga." So yesterday, you heard about the fidayeen attack. No one can confirm the truth. So terrorists will act with or without Pak blessings.

What we need to watch out for is the greater radical. That’s Bangladesh. He will use this moment to fire the venom against India, letting Pak take the blame.

In this conflict and in this age , any government would have taken equal measures. This is the digital age, people’s responses and moods can be analysed and measured. Therefore, defining the approach to a crisis. What the response should be and how it needs to be orchestrated would be the political aim to give their party immense visibility and set the notion in movement of being strong-willed and of taking ownership.

Let’s take a scenario that this happened when the Congress government was in power. What do you think would be the response? With the kind of pressures, the country and its media mounts through a campaigning of reasons. The political dispensation would have been forced to take action to stay relevant and display resilience.

Would the action be the same? That too depends on the internal anguish and the external justification of a just war. The retribution maybe, would have been more. Don’t forget 1971 which is the only complete victory we ever had taken place during congress rule. We keep underplaying it due to the loss of 1962.

1965, Kargil, Galwan, and Sindoor are yet ambiguous. Have we this time achieved the political and military aim?

I like the PM. He did what he did, grant it to him. But why compare or ridicule other government entities. After all, they too unilaterally supported 'Op Sindoor' . Op Sindoor was undoubtedly A Mission- Victory India ! ' 🇮🇳