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Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Anil Chauhan on Tuesday spoke on the outcomes of India's Operation Sindoor against Pakistan-backed terrorism while also addressing concerns around the suspected losses of fighter jets.

In a special lecture on 'Future Wars and Warfare' organised by Pune's Savitribai Phule University, CDS Chauhan highlighted one of the most important achievements as raising the bar and connecting water to terrorism through the Indus Water Treaty. "We have raised the bar, connected terror to water (Indus water Treaty), drawn new line of military operation against terror," he said.

CDS on jet losses

On his recent interview to Bloomberg, were he supposedly admitted of fighter jet losses, he said that losses are not important but how you act. He said, "When I was asked about losses on our side, I said these are not important. The results and how you act are important. It would not be very correct to talk about losses...Suppose you go in a cricket test match, and you win by an innings defeat, then there's no question of how many wickets, how many balls and how many players... Based on technical parameters, we will take out this particular data and share it with you. We will tell you how many aircraft we destroyed and how many radars did we destroy. We'll make a rough assessment of that and come out with that shortly."

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CDS Chauhan also said that a professional army does not get affected by the losses. “I think, professional forces are not affected by setbacks or losses; in a war, what is important is that the morale needs to remain high even if there are setbacks. Adaptability is an important constituent of a very professional force. You should be able to understand what went wrong, need to rectify your mistake and go again. You cannot sit down in fear,” he said.

CDS warns Pakistan

Giving strong message to Pakistan, CDS made it abundantly clear that India is not going to live under the shadow of terror and nuclear blackmail. He also sad that Pakistan thought it would bring India to its knees in 48 hours it unfolded in 8 hours instead.

Highlighting Pakistan's fragile prowess, CDS said, "At around 1 am on May 10, Pak aimed to get India to its knees in 48 hours; multiple attacks were launched but folded up in about 8 hours and wanted to talk."

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India, Pakistan never used capabilities in battlefield

Speaking about the  military capabilities of India and Pakistan, CDS pointed out that both nations had not used them in the battelfield before.

"Both nations (India & Pakistan) had tried to build different kinds of capabilities, so obviously there was an inherent amount of risk into this. None of the capabilities that we had acquired had actually been into the battlefield. There is always an element of risk into it, but as they say, you cannot succeed if you don’t take that type of risk. We knew that we have a better counter-drone system," CDS emphasised.