Army Chief Gen. Upendra Dwivedi, while putting the light on Operation Sindoor, asserted that it was unlike a normal mission. Emphasising that Operation Sindoor required a lot of strategic and tactical planning, it was just like playing a game of chess, as "we did not know" what would be the enemy's next move.

As reported by news agency PTI, the Army Chief recalled the intricacies of India's decisive military action in May on terror infrastructure in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack during his address at a function at IIT-Madras on Saturday. 

Using the metaphor of the chess game, Gen Dwivedi asserted that, "In Operation Sindoor, what we did was we played chess. So, what does it mean? It means we did not know what the next move the enemy was going to take was and what we were going to do. This is something we call… the grey zone. The grey zone is that we are not going for the conventional operations. But we are doing something, just short of a conventional operation," as per news agency PTI.