An example is Operation Sindoor, which still continues. Our preparedness level has to be very high, 24×7, 365 days (a year)- Anil Chauhan, CDS

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Asserting that Operation Sindoor “still continues”, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan has  said the country’s military preparedness must remain at a “very high” level, round-the-clock and throughout the year.

In his keynote address at a defence seminar hosted at Subroto Park as reported by PTI , the CDS also said the military in future will also need “information warriors, technology warriors and scholar warriors”.

And, in an emerging landscape of warfare, a future soldier will need to be a mix of all three “info, tech and scholar warriors”, the CDS said.

The seminar on Aerospace Power: Preserving India’s Sovereignty and Furthering National Interests was held under the aegis of the ‘No.4 Warfare and Aerospace Strategy Programme’.

The CDS said there are no runners-up in a war, and any military must be constantly alert and maintain a high degree of operational preparedness.

“An example is Operation Sindoor, which still continues. Our preparedness level has to be very high, 24×7, 365 days (a year),” Gen Chauhan said.

India launched Operation Sindoor early May 7 and decimated multiple terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (PoK).