New Delhi: A US defence expert has claimed that India’s ‘Operation Sindoor’ that destroyed terror bases and infrastructure inside Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) has come as a success for India and achieved all its strategic objectives.
“After just four days of calibrated military action, it is objectively conclusive that India achieved a massive victory. Operation Sindoor met and exceeded its strategic aims—destroying terrorist infrastructure, demonstrating military superiority, restoring deterrence, and unveiling a new national security doctrine. This was not symbolic force. It was decisive power, clearly applied,” Spencer wrote on X.
India launched Operation Sindoor after terrorists gunned down 26 tourists in Pahalgam’s Baisaran meadows in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on April 22. The operation was launched on the night of may 6-7 am when Indian armed forced launched precision strikes in Bahawalpur, Muridke and several other locations killing over 100 terrorists linked to Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba. At least 10 family members of Jaish chief Masood Azhar were also killed in the strike.
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) May 14, 2025
Writing on India’s success of Operation Sindoor, Spencer further said, “Unlike previous attacks, this time India didn’t wait. It didn’t appeal for international mediation or issue a diplomatic demarche. It launched warplanes.”
The defence expert further said that that India has not declared Operation Sindoor completely over yet.
“What exists now is a sensitive halt in operations—some may call it a ceasefire, but military leaders have deliberately avoided that word. From a warfighting perspective, this is not merely a pause; it is a strategic hold following a rare and unambiguous military victory,” Spencer, who is the chair of Urban Warfare Studies, claimed in his write up on X.
The Resistance Front (TRF), a shadowy front of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had reportedly claimed responsibility for the April 22 attack.
