IAF Chief Backs Pause On Operation Sindoor, Calls It ‘Good Decision’

5 months ago

IAF Chief Air Chief Marshal AP Singh supported the government’s decision to pause Operation Sindoor, stressing that war should end once objectives are met. He revealed some urged continued strikes, but maintained that stopping at the right time was the wiser, national interest-driven choice.

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00:00If the war starts, whether it is, you know, whose initiative, it doesn't matter.

00:04We should be very clear that we have to reach a stage where we can terminate that

00:09so that we can get on with our routine, get on with our progress of the nation

00:14so that conflict termination criteria has been forgotten by people.

00:23I think when I was young, first thing that was taught to me, principles of war,

00:28selection and maintenance of aim.

00:33And people have just kept shifting their objectives and aims every now and then.

00:39People have got down to their egos in this world.

00:43And that is what is continuing, you know, continuously driving the conflict which are going on.

00:49I think we set a very good example.

00:52Our objective was very clear.

00:54Our objective was to teach the terrorists a lesson that they will think twice before doing something

01:02or they know what kind of price they can pay.

01:05And once we have achieved those objectives,

01:09we should look for all windows of opportunity to stop that

01:12rather than just continue.

01:15We were actually on a song that night.

01:19I hear from so many people.

01:22I don't want to say that, but some people very close to me have said,

01:26Aar mar na tha.

01:31I'm telling you that.

01:33But can we continue to be at war?

01:36Why should we be at war when we can avoid it or we can stop it?

01:41That is my way of looking at it.

01:43I think nation has taken a very, very good decision.

01:46And we were a part of the decision, but it was not, cannot be taken at our level.

01:50It has been taken at much higher level, but it was a good decision.

01:55Now we have to make sure that we remain steadfast that should we need to again do something,

02:03we are not found wanting, but what to do that, that call will be taken at much higher level.

02:11Another takeaway that I see from here is we've been talking a lot about drones.

02:17All the recent conflicts drones have come into forefront and somehow I think

02:22we should not be drawing a wrong lesson.

02:24I'm worried about that part.

02:27Drones have very good, good means for many things,

02:31but I don't think just drones can win you war.

02:35You will require the bigger weapons, you will require long range weapons,

02:40you will require the precision strike capability because drones are more of a nuisance

02:46or for very short range, small targets, you can use those.

02:51Even there is a lot of talk about manned, unmanned.

02:53You know, no, no, no, very soon the manned flights will be a thing of the past and all that.

03:01I don't see anything happening in foreseeable future.

03:05Man will remain in the loop.

03:07You may have a lot of AI coming in, machine learning coming in,

03:11in helping the man take a decision.

03:13You may have a lot of things automated.

03:15But as a decision maker, man has to remain in the loop.

03:20And ethically so also.

03:23Tomorrow you can't blame the machine for taking a wrong decision.

IAF Chief Backs Pause On Operation Sindoor, Calls It ‘Good Decision’

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