‘Numbers Matter, Else CDS Would Have Made Them Public’: Sushant Singh

Military analyst Sushant Singh has refuted the Chief of Defence Staff’s claim that “numbers are not important” when it comes to the number of air force planes India lost in Operation Sindoor.

Singh said, “Numbers are important and if numbers were not important General Chauhan would have accepted them. The fact there is so much of kerfuffle in India and so much of anger amongst supporters of Modi … clearly points to the fact that numbers are important. Numbers do matter.”

In a 30-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Singh, who is a Consulting Editor at Caravan magazine and a lecturer at  Yale University, pointed out that of the nine targets India attacked on May 7, military officials have claimed (to the Hindu) that seven were assigned to the Indian army. This means that only two were left to the Air Force. If, in targeting those two – in what was just a 25-minute operation – up to five air crafts could have possibly been shot down, then it’s a matter of concern and cannot be brushed aside, Singh said.

Watch the full interview.

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