The Times of India | Major General Rajan Kochhar Retd
This analysis of 'Operation Sindoor' offers crucial strategic lessons for India's military future, primarily focusing on air power and the nature of modern conflict. It highlights air power's initial effectiveness in securing battle outcomes through precision strikes and force projection. However, the operation also revealed the transient, contested, and resource-intensive reality of air superiority, constrained by factors like aircraft availability and maintenance. The article stresses the need for enhanced resilience, advocating for dispersed basing, hardened shelters, rapid runway repair, and redundant command networks over simply acquiring more platforms. Furthermore, it asserts that even with high-tech precision weaponry and ISR dominance, Operation Sindoor gravitated towards attrition warfare. This suggests that advanced systems redistribute attrition across various domains, including missiles, drones, interceptors, and logistics, rather than eliminating it entirely, a critical insight for India’s strategic planners.
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