India unleashed Operation Sindoor with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading from the front. India’s immediate response to it had the clear Modi imprint. On the one hand, India immediately alerted the global community to the heinousness of the act, pinpointing its epicentre in Pakistan; and, on the other hand, India launched a multipronged rescue operation and assessment. Union Home Minister Amit Shah was immediately deputed to Jammu & Kashmir by Prime Minister Modi, who himself kept a second-to-second tab on the situation, being on a crucial foreign visit. PM Modi cut short his visit and, on landing, set the other mechanisms in motion. These eventually led to the successful execution of Operation Sindoor.

It is not Modi’s way to react immediately or on the spur of the moment. His actions are calculated to inflict maximum damage on India baiters and at the same time to consolidate and enhance national strength and capacity. Those who have contemplated his “Panch Pran" will discern this core approach. Each of the five action-pledges is meant to consolidate and crystallise national will and national self-confidence.

One of the clearly defined dimensions of India’s national security doctrine, as articulated and exercised by PM Modi in the last one decade, is to assess and weigh in the options, prepare to the hilt, make a short-term and long-term assessment and then strike or retaliate. Each retaliation is meant to be a greater and more powerful deterrence. This is one of the cardinal pillars of India’s national security doctrine under PM Modi, it is a principal dimension of the “Modi Doctrine." The adversary is kept guessing, multiple voices aren’t heard speaking and interpreting the situation, no information is leaked, and no one can predict the time and manner in which India will choose to........

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