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.
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