Introduction
Our neighbours have been bleeding us with strikes on our
vital installations and hapless people at will. We have never done the hot
pursuit across the border to annihilate them from the source. This was due to
the long-perceived views of central governments not to violate the border with
our neighbours. The observed restraint to attack the militants across the
border with neighbours was there even when our parliament was attacked by them.
At different points in time, there has been renewed demand for the surgical
strikes across the border to totally destroy the militant training and
facilitation camps set up near the international border. The fear of the use of
nuclear bomb in a conflict that may come after the cross-border pursuit forced
the Indian leadership to remain a mute spectator to the militant strikes across
India all these years.
Change in Mindset of Indian Leadership
The Indian Army think tank has been asking the political
leadership to grant permission to annihilate the militant facilitation camps operating
across the border for a long time now. There have been incursions across the border facilitated
by the state actors to vitiate the atmosphere in the border areas. The present
ruling dispensation has gone a step ahead in providing the blanket permission
to the Army leadership to plan and execute a surgical operation to eliminate
the militant training camps in Myanmar. It seems the central government had
informed the authorities in the neighbouring country ahead of operations.
Whatever be the reason, the military establishment in Myanmar did not interfere
with the operation that just lasted just under 1 hour.
Significance of this Operation
The successful completion of this covert operation
demonstrates the skills Indian soldiers have in this type of covert operations.
They are well trained to take the fight across the border if the need arises. Indian
Army also has the required equipment and expertise to plan and successfully execute
the cross-border hot pursuit at the time of its liking. The high-point in the
operation is that our army did not suffer any loss. It was well executed,
keeping under wraps the whole detail. This is the reason why the hostile gang
of militants stationed across the border could not sustain their fight against
the operation. Another thing that should have gone into the minds of the
perpetrators of violence across the border is that our military would execute surprise
hot pursuit across the border would as and when require. It should act as a
deterrent to those people who organize the militant activities directed against
India from across the border.
