What is a surgical strike?
A
surgical strike is essentially a swift and targeted attack on specific
target that aims to neutralise them while ensuring minimum collateral
damage to the surrounding areas and civilians.
A
surgical strike is "a calculated manoeuvre to ensure you deliver
maximum damage which gives a big surprise to your adversary. A surgical
strike is an intricate operation that "needs a lot of grit to carry
out". Neutralisation of targets with surgical strikes also prevents
escalation to a full blown war. Surgical strikes are part of India’s
Cold Start doctrine and have proved effective
How is it carried out?
These
attacks can be carried out via air raids, airdropping special ops teams
or a ground operation. External intelligence is vital to carrying out
these attacks and these special operation teams work closely with the
service intelligence departments, Intelligence Bureau and secret service
agencies.
The Special Operations are complex
and need to be diligently planned and coordinated on various levels. It
also needs an effective C4ISR support from the operational command. The
C4ISR support requires-command, control, communication, computers,
intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance.
These
attacks can also be carried out by precision bombing using precision
guided munitions. These tactics are especially useful in densely
populated areas where raiding ground forces have a higher risk of
sustaining casualties and in this case would not be the logical choice.
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