All you Need to Know about Surgical Strikes

BENGALURU: The Indian Army in midnight of 28 September conducted surgical strikes on the terrorist launch pads across the LoC. Lt-Gen Ranveer Singh, Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) in a press conference confirmed that our soldiers carried out the strikes on the Wednesday night. It caused a heavy damage to terrorist camps and many terrorists are killed in the operation. As reported by The Economic Times, this strike is a reaction to the terrorist attack happened in Uri on 18th September.

The defense ministry and ministry of external affairs along with Lt-Gen Ranveer Singh announced it during the joint briefing to the media personals. DGMO informed that the option of the surgical strike is taken to counter the increasing number of infiltration bids. Many terrorists are gathered along the LoC for the clear intention of crossing the border and spreading cross-border terrorism across India. Therefore, the surgical strike is conducted by Para commandos to neutralize them.

A surgical strike is a military operation carried by the armed forces to enter the territory of another country, hit enemy installations and targets, and come back to the own place with a lightning speed and limited causality. It not only needs to detail a full-scale and detailed planning, but it is necessary to carry out with absolute precision and completing the objective of destroying all targets with minimal self damage.

Indian army in June 2016 conducted a similar operation where they went inside Myanmar border and killed 38 Naga insurgents within a course of 40 minutes. Globally many other military forces across the border have conducted such strikes to eliminate threats. The most famous being the American force, killing Osama Bin Laden in a surgical strike in Abbottabad. Israel Defense Force conducted the highly acclaimed hostage rescue mission at Entebbe airport, Uganda in 1976 where they conducted most clinical surgical strikes in world’s history.

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