Jaipur, May 9 -- Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said Operation Sindoor signalled India's collective resolve and new military ethos, and the "short-duration, deep-penetration, high-intensity, and high-impact operation" compelled Pakistan to surrender. "Operation Sindoor is a testament to the swift, precise, and joint response of the Indian defence forces to safeguard national interests," Singh said while addressing the Joint Commanders' Conference, a day after the country marked the first anniversary of the operation. Launched in the early hours of May 7, 2025, it marked New Delhi's muscular response to the Pakistan-backed Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people. It triggered four days of strikes and counterstrikes with fighter jets, missiles, drones, long-range weapons and heavy artillery before the two sides reached an understanding on stopping all military action on May 10. Singh asked the country's top military commanders to internalise lessons from the four-day military clash with Pakistan and other ongoing global conflicts to remain future-ready. He highlighted the need to strengthen capabilities in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, data analytics and secure communication networks to ensure operational readiness in a rapidly evolving geopolitical security scenario. Future conflicts, he said, will increasingly be shaped by hybrid threats, information dominance and operations conducted simultaneously across cyber, space, electromagnetic and cognitive domains....