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India Must Start Its Story First in Conflicts: Major General Sandeep Sharda #army #navy #ncc #news

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Sir, first, when you were speaking about the story and the weather, the army, or the air, I mean the forces, they have to win first in the story. Wins. We were talking about the, uh, Venezuelan, uh, uh, you know, the, uh, case itself, sir. If you look at the Venezuelan case, the first thing that started was with the story itself, and they created a sort of, uh, environment where they could do it with impunity. Similarly, you see any others. So, what I am trying to bring about is, and it is not that it is not being done by others also. Everyone has been doing it till now. But now it is more required because of the technology that is available to every person today. He has that inclination; he is a reporter. He is, you know, an analyst, everything in his hand. So, if that be the case, your story has to start first, sir.

If your story starts first and you have the correct environment, so, that MDO, what we all spoke of, the information is the enveloping story, sir. So, till the time you don't have the envelopment, the rest of it will always suffer. Number one. Number two, you talked of the audiences, sir. Let's say in this case also, that I brought about, there are three, let's categorize them into three basic audiences. You have the adversaries' audience. You have the, uh, domestic audience, and then you have the international audience.

Now, after the first day, and once things started, uh, heating up on the media. So, both sides, as I told that what we did, similarly Pakistan did. So, as a result, both became echo chambers. So, this had reinforcing stories within their own nations. As a result, you had your own stories running here; they had their own story running there. Now, coming to international. Now, international, uh, while it is not the charter of the services, however, a lot was being done to ensure that in concert with other agencies. It is not that we were functioning alone with the, uh, other agencies of the government, other arms of the government. A lot was being done at that time.

What we need to do more. What you said is right. What we need to do more is in the international arena. There are a number of actions that are already underway, uh, that we can discuss after this, during the detail.