Lesser Known Facts About the Uri Surgical Strike

A surgical strike is a military attack that is designed to harm only a valid military target with little or minimal collateral damage to nearby structures, vehicles, buildings, or public infrastructure and utilities.

A surgical strike is a quick and focused attack with the goal of causing the least amount of collateral damage to neighbouring locations and populations. Surgical attacks that neutralise targets also prevent a full-fledged war from escalating. Airstrikes, airdropping special ops personnel, a quick ground operation, or sending elite troops can all be used in surgical strike attacks.

Precision bombing is another type of surgical strike carried out by aircraft; it differs from carpet bombing, which causes a lot of collateral damage and a wide spectrum of destruction over a large region, with or without a lot of civilian casualties.

In September 2016, India changed the course of history by demonstrating the courage required to teach Pakistan a lesson. On the 28th and 29th of September of that year, the Indian Army carried out surgical strikes across the Line of Control in Pak-occupied Kashmir to avenge the killing of 19 troops in Uri by Pakistan-backed terrorists on September 18th. Despite Pakistan’s history of attacking India through terrorists that it nurtures, fosters, supports, provide weapons, and trains, India has never executed surgical strikes of this magnitude against Pakistan in the past. However, the Government of the day and its resolve changed history.

Pulwama attack:

A convoy of vehicles transporting Indian security personnel on the Jammu–Srinagar National Highway was assaulted by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber near Lethapora in the Pulwama district of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir on 14 February 2019. The attacker, Adil Ahmad Dar, local Kashmiri youth from the Pulwama area, was murdered along with 40 Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troops. The Pakistan-based Islamist terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the attack. India blames Pakistan for the strike, but Pakistan acquits itself and denies any involvement. The attack shattered India-Pakistan relations, resulting in the 2019 military standoff between the two countries. Following that, Indian investigations found 19 suspects. The primary accused, along with six others, had been killed by August 2021, and seven others had been detained.

Working with the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) dispatched a 12-member team to investigate the attack. The car was suspected of carrying more than 300 kilogrammes (660 lb) of explosives, including 80 kilograms (180 lb) of RDX, a powerful explosive, and ammonium nitrate, according to preliminary investigations. The explosives, according to Lt Gen Hooda, may have been stolen from a construction site. He originally denied that they might have been transported across the border, but then said that he couldn’t rule it out.

URI: the surgical strike:

The Indian Army started surgical strikes against terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in September 2016. The strike on September 28, 2016, was in retaliation for a terrorist attack on a military camp in Kashmir’s Uri on September 18, in which 19 troops were killed by Pakistan-based militants.

Since then, September 29 has been designated as “Surgical Strike Day” by the government.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed the facts of the military strike in an interview with news agency ANI, noting that the date of the attack was modified twice to ensure the safety and security of the troops.

Conclusion:

A surgical strike is a military attack that is designed to harm only a valid military target with little or minimal collateral damage to nearby structures, vehicles, buildings, or public infrastructure and utilities. The Indian Army started surgical strikes against terrorist camps in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in September 2016. The strike on September 28, 2016, was in retaliation for a terrorist attack on a military camp in Kashmir’s Uri on September 18, in which 19 troops were killed by Pakistan-based militants. Since then, September 29 has been designated as “Surgical Strike Day” by the government.