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Senior Congress person Prithviraj Chavan connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025) said India holds superiority implicit Pakistan successful presumption of the Army size, but Operation Sindoor intelligibly established aboriginal conflicts are going to beryllium mostly successful domain of aerial powerfulness and missiles.
"As acold arsenic the Army is concerned, we person a spot of 12 lakh to 15 lakh, portion Pakistan has 5 lakh to 6 lakh personnel. But it [large size] has nary meaning due to the fact that that benignant of warfare [on ground] volition not hap now," helium argued.
Talking to reporters successful Pune, the erstwhile Union Minister questioned the request to person specified a ample Army.
“Now it is irrelevant however overmuch Infantry you person arsenic nary 1 volition let you to bash that benignant of war, and we person seen that during Operation Sindoor, the subject did not determination adjacent 1 km. The struggle during Operation Sindoor was mostly an aerial engagement and rocket war, and going forward, wars volition instrumentality spot successful a akin manner," helium insisted.
"In this case, is determination immoderate request to support an Army of 12 lakh? It is amended to prosecute them successful immoderate different work. Though we person an system that is 10 times bigger than Pakistan’s, determination is parity present [as acold arsenic the Army is concerned]," Mr. Chavan maintained.
Henceforth, determination volition beryllium nary "hot war" wherever tanks of some the countries volition face each other, the Congress person noted.
"During Kargil [in 1999], then-U.S. President Bill Clinton called to halt the war. This clip [U.S.. President Donald] Trump said 'stop the war' and it [Operation Sindoor] was stopped and we did not bash anything,” helium claimed.
