Presentation on Surgical Strike Day with the incident of Uri Surgical Strike

1. Surgical Strike Day
29th September 2018

3. SURGICAL STRIKE
• A Surgical strike is defined as a military
attack intended to inflict damage on a
specific target, with little or no collateral
damage to surrounding areas.

4. Surgical Strike attacks:
• Air strike,
• Swift ground operation
• Sending special troops.
• Airdropping special operations teams

5. • On the midnight of September 28, 2016,
• India broke the long-standing truce at the Line of Control
(LoC) to avenge the September 18 terror attack on the
Indian Army brigade headquarters at Uri, Jammu and
Kashmir.
• In the Uri attack, the country lost 17 of its bravehearts....
• Severn months earlier, in January, India took another blow
from terrorists across the LoC as a heavily armed group
attacked the Indian Air Force Base at Pathankot, killing 7
soldiers, including Keralite Lt Col Niranjan of the National
Security Guards (NSG)

6. Historic
Operation by
the Indian
Army's Special
Forces

7. • National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval assigned to
identify the perpetrators of the attack and explore a
way to strike back, including military action.
• Following the Uri attack, Prime Minister Narendra
Modi ordered probe.
• Intelligence agencies and army
conducted the probe. GPS
devices recovered from the
terrorists showed that they came
from Pakistan. They mapped the
way the terrorists sneaked into
the country.

8. • Massive search ops
conducted in J&K and
neighbouring states.
• Uri residents caught two men who
helped army base attackers.
Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar
handed over evidence to Pakistan
envoy Abdul Basit.

9. • On the same day, Pakistan
denied any role in Uri attack,
while its Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif raised Kashmir issue at
the United Nations.
• DGMO briefed:- (Director General of Military Operations)-(Pakistan)
Prime Miniter Narendra Modi
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
NSA and Army chief Dalbir Singh
Suhag on LoC strike options
• Northern Army Commander :
 Lt General D S Hooda picked strike
team from 1,3, & 4 para battalions.

10. • PM met the Defence
Minister and the NSA
and Approved
Surgical Strike
• Army located targets across the border.
• National Technical Research Organisation
(NTRO) satellites monitored the targets
• Intelligence agencies and the government
worked 24x7 to execute the mission

11. 'We will neither forgive nor forget Uri,’
 Prime Minister while addressing
a rally in Kozhikode,Kerala

12.  NSA (National Security Agency),
 Service Chiefs,
 Foreign Secretary,
 Intelligence Chiefs,
 NTRO Chief,
(National Technical Research Organisation)
- Indian technical intelligence agency
 DGMO,
(Director General of Military Operations)-(Pakistan)
 convened a meeting and decided the strategy
 Four key areas of discussion:-
 Surgical Strike,
 Contingency plans,
 Brining back Troops after the Mission and
 Information/Escalation matrix.

13.  Around 10pm:-
 Evacuation of civilians near
Punjab and J&K border villages
 Heliborne strike team began moving in.
 Targets Range of 2 to 3 km from LoC.
 Dropped off Team at a safe distance
from the targets
 Around midnight:-
 Strikes began at multiple targets.
 First, the perimeter guards eliminated by snipers.
 Forces mounted assault on terrorists, destroyed
the vehicles and ammunitions.
 Live visuals of the operation streamed back to
command centre, where PM, Defence Minister, NSA,
DGMO Intel Chiefs, NTRO chief and three service
chiefs stationed.

14. ACCORDING TO INDIAN ARMY
 Seven terror launchpads were destroyed and 45 terrorists
were killed in the attack.
 Strike happened at Bhimber, Hotspring, Kel and Lipa
sectors on Pak's side of LoC
 Casualties:
 The team also had a plan for managing causalities.
 They were determined not to leave any man behind.
 The only casualty reported was of one commando, who injured in mine blast while
returning to extraction point.
 He lost his leg in the incident. Everyone else safely returned to the base by Sept 29, 9am.

15.  Ajit Doval and Operations Chief met Prime Minister.
 Doval spoke to his US counterpart Susan Rice.
 Cabinet committee on security called at noon.
 Soon after the cabinet committee meeting DGMO Lt Gen
Ranbir Singh called his Pakistani counterpart to inform
about the strikes.
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to former PM
Manmohan Singh, while Home Minister briefed state
chief ministers about military action..
12.30 P.M. :-
 DGMO Lt Gen Ranbir Singh met
Media, announcing that India had
conducted surgical strikes across the
border....

16. WHY SURGICAL STRIKE?
"The cross-LoC surgical strike was carried out to send across a
'strong message' to Pakistan, which could not have been
conveyed through other means,"
 Lt General D S Hooda
General Officer Commanding-in-Chief
Army's Northern Command

17. Thanking You
Source: “https://english.manoramaonline.com/news/nation/2018/09/26/surgical-strike-indian-army-pakistan-september28-2016.html”