New Delhi: In a stern message to Islamabad for supporting cross-border terrorism, Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi on Saturday referred to Operation Sindoor launched in response to the Pahalgam terror attack and said if “Pakistan continues to harbor terrorists and work against India, they will have to decide whether they want to be a part of geography, history or not”.Speaking at the Army Samvad program here, General Dwivedi appreciated the capabilities of the tech-savvy generation and the Army’s intention to utilize their potential.“Let me first admit that the (tech-savvy) generation is at least 10 times better than ours. They are much more adaptable. They are socially conscious, globally connected, and digitally fluent… The Indian Army is talking about 2026-27 as the year of networking and data centricity. We have started internships and we have received one lakh applications for 100 vacancies.”The Army Chief talked about the rapid change in technology and its impact on military modernisation. He said, “Today, the Army is changing so fast, modernization is happening so fast, and technology becomes obsolete within 18 months. If you have to adopt that kind of technology, how are you doing it? So, the waves of change have to be felt at every level, from a soldier to majors and major generals, to generals like me.”Teaching leadership lessons to the younger generation, General Dwivedi, who is set to retire on June 30, also shared a personal dream: He wants to open a café called ‘Aahista Zindagi’, which will serve as a retreat for the senses in the hectic pace of life.At the same event, Chief of Defense Staff General Anil Chauhan said Operation Sindoor was different from all previous conflicts as it was a kind of multi-domain operation, was largely non-contact warfare, involved new technologies like space and cyber and required a huge amount of coordination not only between the three services but also with other instrumentalities of the government and various agencies. “It was a very well-coordinated operation.…Even the scale of victory was different…Imagine something landing precisely in this room from 300 or 400 km away. This was unprecedented in our geography. So this particular operation was completely different,” he said.On the verge of retirement after more than 45 years of distinguished service, CDS General Chauhan said what he has learned in the last three and a half years is completely different from the earlier leadership. “Because, till now, it was only up to the chiefs, whereas the responsibility of the CDS is a little more than that of the service chiefs, the interaction too, is a little more. So, this is a new thing that we have learned to streamline the system, to get benefits from the system...So, will probably be able to teach new officers, who will hold senior appointments in future,” he said.