Goa, Aug. 10 -- Operation Sindoor was unlike any conventional mission, with the Army navigating an unpredictable battlefield that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Upendra Dwivedi likened to a game of chess. Despite the uncertainty, India delivered a decisive checkmate to Pakistan, he said, while slamming Islamabad's attempt to project itself as the victor through narrative manipulation.

"In Operation Sindoor, we played chess. We didn't know the enemy's next move, and they didn't know ours. That's the greyzone-just short of a conventional operation," Dwivedi told an audience at IIT Madras. "Somewhere we were giving them the checkmate, and somewhere going in for the kill-at the risk of losing our own. But that's what life is all about."...