New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh today strongly batted for Aatmanirbharta (self reliance) in Defence and the strategy of 'defining' the battlefield, citing the example of success of Operation Sindoor.

In modern warfare whichever nation decides the battlefield, is the one that controls the game and its rules and others have no option but to respond on terms that are not of their choosing, the Defence Minister said during his plenary address at RAN SAMWAD, a first-of-its-kind Tri-service seminar on war, warfare and warfighting, at the Army War College in Dr Ambedkar Nagar, Madhya Pradesh.

"Our endeavour must be to define the battlefield and the rules of the game ourselves, compelling the adversary to fight there, so that...