War Is Serious Business: General Naravane’s Cautionary Message

PUNE : Former Chief of Army Staff, General Manoj Mukund Naravane, said that Operation Sindoor sent a strong message to Pakistan to stop fooling around the respective boundaries and demonstrated the heavy price one has to pay for continuing on the path of aggression.

General Naravane made the remarks during the Diamond Jubilee celebration of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India in Pune.

“Last week have been a tumultuous week starting with Operation Sindoor where the Indian Armed forces strikes on the terrorist camps and infrastructure in Pakistan and POK followed by four days of intense aerial and land battles which finally culminated with announcement of cessation of military operations –this is cessation of military operations not the ceasefire we will have to wait and watch how things unfold in the days and weeks to come,” ANI quoted him as saying.

“War is not your Bollywood movie” – General Naravane

While talking about the toll a war can take and the kind of trauma it can leave behind, General Naravane said that wars are not like Bollywood movies.

“War is not your Bollywood movie, wars are not romantic; it is serious business,” he said.

“Children lose their parents, and sometimes children themselves become victims of indiscriminate shelling,” he added, highlighting how wars can traumatise generations of people.

General Naravane also stressed upon the financial impact of warfare and the human costs that come with it. “War is an expensive business,” he said.

Talking about the financial toll of a war, General Naravane brought up the loss of military equipment worth millions of dollars and how the wars leave behind a long-term economic burden of rebuilding.