Troops need to be battle-hardened: Northern Army Commander

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Northern Army Commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi on Friday batted for the need to do more in terms of different dynamics exhibited on the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh and said the armed forces have learnt valuable lessons from ‘Operation Snow Leopard’ in Ladakh. He stressed the need for better technologies for guarding the most sensitive operational area falling under Northern Command as it is ‘always in combat’.

“The Northern Command exemplifies the notion of ‘two-and-a-half front’. It has unique frontiers and varied terrain ranging from plains to super-high altitude, as also the normal to extreme weather conditions with temperatures going to as low as minus 50 to 70 degrees,” Lt Gen Dwivedi said.

At a two-day ‘North Tech Symposium 2022’ at the Northern Command Headquarters in Udhampur, he said the lessons of Operational Snow Leopard have been “fully assimilated and fused into our capacities of swift mobilisation, appropriate force posturing and infrastructure development in synergy with the Central Armed Police Forces and civil administration”.