Bengaluru, April 9
Army chief, General Upendra Dwivedi, on Thursday described Operation Sindoor as a major step in the country’s move towards more integrated military operations, saying the offensive showed how modern warfare increasingly depends on coordination across multiple domains rather than the actions of a single service.
Speaking at the Ran Samvad forum on the Army’s vision for multi-domain operations (MDO) on Thursday , Gen Dwivedi said the operation marked what he called India’s “most powerful” advance towards “domain jointness” — a concept that brings land, air, sea, cyber, space and cognitive capabilities into closer alignment.
He said the military now needed to move beyond coordination towards what he called deeper “integration and fusion” across services and theatres.
Referring to Operation Sindoor, launched in May last year after the 22 April Pahalgam attack in which 26 Indian tourists were killed, the army chief said the offensive had become a key example of how military operations are evolving. India had said at the time that the strikes targeted terror launchpads in Pakistan in response to the killings.
Gen Dwivedi said the operation demonstrated that modern conflict can no longer be understood through traditional battlefield boundaries or through the dominance of one branch of the armed forces.
Instead, he argued, war is increasingly shaped by constant interaction between land, air, maritime, cyber, space and cognitive domains, with the lead shifting depending on the operational need. His idea of multi-domain operations, he said, was not of six separate domains functioning in parallel, but of all of them working in “constant dynamic interaction”.
He said the old silo-based model was no longer sufficient, and that operational success now depended on synergy rather than separation.
