If the IAF is feeling the pinch by deploying four MI-17 helicopters for providing logistics support to anti-Maoist operations, it must withdraw the 17 helicopters deployed on UN peacekeeping missions in Africa first.
Indian Air Force[IAF] wants to withdraw its helicopters deployed for providing logistics support to the state and central police forces engaged in anti-Maoist [...]
In this debate over building police capacity, quality is as important, if not more, than the quantity.
In the aftermath of the massacre of ill-trained and poorly-equipped policemen in West Bengal by the Maoists, Saikat Datta of the Outlook magazine unravels the depth of the crisis engulfing the Indian police forces. And Saikat does it by [...]
From Kishenji to JFK.
Has it ever occurred to you that we gloat over the US getting its Baradar and Haqqani in Pakistan but can’t get one stupid Kishenji in our own country? While Kishenji isn’t the military supremo of the Maoists, getting him is important to correct the distorted media narrative of [...]
Draft Model Police Act of 2006, a part of police reforms, provided for Special Security Zones to overcome the differences between states on conducting security operations against Maoists.
Maoists are back in news again. Two dastardly attacks, one kidnapping, one Chief Minister publicly capitulating before the Maoists, another Chief Minister who publicly opposes any use of [...]
Why do terror incidents in India that are counted refer only to Pakistan-backed Islamist terrorist attacks in major urban centres outside Jammu & Kashmir?
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.~John Cage
At the turn of the year, Ajai Sahni critically examines the hugely publicised statement — “no terror [...]
High voting percentages in Jharkhand assembly polls, despite the state being a Maoist stronghold, raises uncomfortable questions.
The relatively high voter turnout figures in the ongoing Jharkhand assembly elections should have attracted far more attention that they have done so far. With nearly 80 percent of assembly constituencies declared as Maoist-affected by the Centre, the first [...]
Maoism — terrorism or socio-economic class struggle?
While the Indian army chief was happy labelling Maoism as a “socio-economic class struggle”, here is how Ai Ping, the director-general of the Communist Party of China’s Bureau 1 that advises Beijing on its South and East Asia policies characterised the Maoists.
Maoism is nothing but terrorism. The Maoists should [...]
The Army Chief labels Maoists’ a “socio-economic class struggle”.
During an event at the Pune University, the Army Chief explained his reservations about employing the army against the Left Wing Extremists in this manner.
The disruptive activities and spread of Naxalites in around 14 states poses a major security challenge. The government has adopted a multi-dimensional and [...]
Maoists are not concerned about problems of the tribals or poor. These are handy excuses to direct violence against the state.
Shrikant Patil, who is very angry after his trip to Sikkim — visibly shaken seeing the vast difference in infrastructure developed on the Chinese and the Indian side — made an interesting point about Maoists [...]
Forget the terminology. Focus on the execution of policy.
Left Wing Extremism, the official term for the mayhem caused by the Maoists and Naxals, is a rather bland term for a threat so grave. Nevertheless, it is far better than the expression used by the Pakistani security establishment to describe jehadis operating in that country — [...]
Better governance, not violence by Maoists, is an answer to a lack of governance.
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.~Mao
Here is a list of phrases often used in the discussion about the Maoists and the Indian government’s response to them by all leftist, bleeding liberal hearts: development, tribal rights, forests, mining [...]
If it plans to melt into anonymity, the fleeing Maoist leadership can only be neutralised by intelligence from the local police.
Sankarshan Thakur warns the Indian government of one of the fall-outs of their voluble anti-Maoist strategy.
Intelligence inputs reaching here from parts of Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand suggest that large numbers of cadres may leave their [...]
India should not hesitate to use Air Force assets against the Maoists.
Former Air Chief S. Krishnaswamy dispels the notion that IAF cannot be trusted to be employed in the this war against the Maoists [LT: Kat].
First, it is the government’s prerogative to use the military in any manner towards a purpose which obviously would be [...]
Precedent of employing armed forces against the Naxals or the Mizos is not a good enough reason to employ them again now.
As far as the anti-Maoist operations are concerned, among the three essential component of any security strategy: ends, ways and means — the first one has been taken care of by a clear [...]
There is no alternative to this war against the Maoists. It must be thus resourced to the full.
There are two types of opposition to the anti-Maoist security operations planned by the Home ministry. The first one are the left-liberal bleeding hearts who are dead against any kind of security operations against the Maoists. It would [...]
Not in opposing Operation Green Hunt, but in ensuring that the government completes its strategy by undertaking development.
From berating popular media anchors for parroting the government line and comparing Home Ministry’s plans to seize the security initiative against the Maoists to George Bush led US military operations against Iraq, Mukul Kesavan covers a lot of [...]
A lack of development in the past can’t be the reason for a lack of action by security forces against the Maoists now.
Whenever there is a talk about solving the Maoist problem, many well-meaning people start with exploring the root cause of the problem. Because a lack of development lead to the rise of the [...]
Both direct and indirect approaches will produce success.
Pure military skill is not enough. A full spectrum of military, para-military, and civil action must be blended to produce success. The enemy uses economic and political warfare, propaganda and naked military aggression in an endless combination to oppose a free choice of government, and suppress the rights [...]
The answer is critical to succeeding against the Maoists.
The first stage of government strategy against the Maoists is to recapture territory controlled by the Maoists. The second stage of this strategy has to be capturing the hearts and minds of the local population. Executing the first stage well will not signal success but not executing [...]
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