UDHAMPUR : Northern Army Commander Lt General Upendra Dwivedi on Friday said that troops in Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh need to be geared up and battle-hardened to counter the dynamic operational situations and challenges, both along the borders and in the hinterland, and come out as winners.
The Northern Command exemplifies the notion of the ‘two and a half front’, with its unique frontiers and varied terrain ranging from plains to super high altitude, as also the normal to extreme weather, said General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Northern Command Lt Gen Dwivedi, while addressing the two-day ‘North Tech Symposium 2022’ being held in Udhampur after a gap of two years.
The “eyeball to eyeball’ deployment, ranging from the plains of Jammu to the Siachen Glacier and further to Eastern Ladakh, and the dynamic internal security situation in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir make Northern Command the most unique theatre, he said, adding that ever since the raising, Northern Command has been ‘always in combat’.Referring to India occupying strategic heights along the Line of Actual Control, he said the “valuable lessons of Op Snow Leopard have been fully assimilated and fused into our capacities with respect to swift mobilisation, appropriate force posturing and infrastructure development in synergy with the other two services, Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and civil administration”. However, there is still more that needs to be done considering the dynamics exhibited in terms of differing perceptions on the Line of Actual Control, he added.
