Emblazoning the skies: From ‘drig road’ to ‘Op Sindoor’

Col Satish Singh Lalotra slalotra4729@gmail.com Of all the three services of the armed forces, the air power, aka the air force of any nation, has the quickest reach, lethality, shock effect, and charisma within itself to take a battle to its logical end-and that too on its own terms, provided this arm of the nation has been nurtured well both during its peacetime and wartime requirements. What air power can do in a short air/land engagement was very amply demonstrated during the not-too-recent 'OP Sindoor' when the IAF, staying well within national boundaries, was able to impose such a stranglehold…