Bengaluru:Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi on Thursday said Operation Sindoor demonstrated India’s progression towards “domain jointness” and called the military offensive carried out inside Pakistani territory a “defining case study” of operational significance of integration. In May last year, India had launched a military response targeting terror launchpads in Pakistan post the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 Indian tourists.

“Operation Sindoor was India’s most powerful tool of progression towards domain jointness. But we need to achieve domain integration and fusion,” General Dwivedi said. He was addressing the “Ran Samvad” forum on “Land Forces visualisation of Multi Domain Operation (MDO),” here. The army chief also highlighted the creation of an information warfare organisation and a psychological defence division following Operation Sindoor. He said, “15 per cent of our effort was on managing the disinformation campaign.”

He cautioned, however, that key challenges remain, particularly in synchronising operations across strategic, operational and tactical levels and addressing the growing prevalence of hybrid or grey-zone warfare. “These are typically below the conventional military threshold, with the goal to exploit adversary vulnerability,” he said, adding that non-kinetic operations are increasingly taking precedence.