The ambush of a joint CRPF and state police team in Chhattisgarh shows the training and tactics have to be better than the ragtag Maoists. Jammu and Kashmir is a good example.
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Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Not the first time the security forces were caught ‘napping’ by the Maoists. Worse, even after the many such fiascos, not a single one of the higher-ups have been hauled-up for negligence, incompetence, ineptitude or other shortcomings. Fact is, the CRPF is totally useless to the task, as they are literally ill-trained, ill-equipped and ill-led for such sensitive and dangerous operations.
Very good article on the subject which I have read in the recent times. For a change, there is nothing contrarian in the article.
A few years back, a friend who visited Chattisgarh came back with the observation: There was a tacit understanding between the previous CM and the Maoists – “This is my area, you don’t interfere. I won’t interfere in your area.”
Cowardice is writ large on these anti-insurgency operations. The abandoned wepons will be turned against the security forces in the next ambush.
Not the first time the security forces were caught ‘napping’ by the Maoists. Worse, even after the many such fiascos, not a single one of the higher-ups have been hauled-up for negligence, incompetence, ineptitude or other shortcomings. Fact is, the CRPF is totally useless to the task, as they are literally ill-trained, ill-equipped and ill-led for such sensitive and dangerous operations.
Very good article on the subject which I have read in the recent times. For a change, there is nothing contrarian in the article.
A few years back, a friend who visited Chattisgarh came back with the observation: There was a tacit understanding between the previous CM and the Maoists – “This is my area, you don’t interfere. I won’t interfere in your area.”
Cowardice is writ large on these anti-insurgency operations. The abandoned wepons will be turned against the security forces in the next ambush.