Pune, June 3 (Reporter) A professional armed force is not affected by “setbacks or losses” Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan said on Tuesday in continuation to his recent remark that India did suffer “initial losses” of air assets due to tactical errors during Operation Sindoor. “When I was asked about losses on our side, I said these are not important. The results and how you act are important. It would not be very correct to talk about losses,” the CDS said at an event here. He was explaining his remarks during his interview to Bloomberg a few days back in Singapore, where he responded to a question on Pakistani claims that six Indian fighter jets were downed during the operation by saying, “What is important is that, not the jet being down, but why they were being down.” Insisting that “Pakistan’s claim of India having lost six fighter jets is absolutely wrong,” he had told the interviewer: “Why they were down, what mistakes were made — that are important.” He had said that following the losses, Indian fighter aircraft resumed long-range strikes on Pakistani targets within two days, demonstrating recovery and operational resilience. While speaking here today on the ‘Future Wars and Warfare’, organised by the Department of Defence and Strategic Studies of Savitribai Phule, Pune University, Gen Chauhan said, “I think it is a professional force that is not affected by setbacks or losses. In war even if there are setbacks we need to maintain the morale.” Explaining his statement, he said, “Suppose you are going to a football match, and he scores two goals and you score four goals….suppose you go in a cricket test match and win by an innings, then there is no question of how many wickets (were lost) and, how many balls and how many players. Based on technical parameters, we will take out this particular data and share it with you. We will tell you how many aircraft and radars we destroyed. We will make a rough assessment of that and come out with that shortly”. He said, "Operation Sindoor is not yet over and is a temporary cessation of hostilities and there is a need to keep our guard up”...////...