Indian Army Raises the Stakes in Its War Against the Maoists.

[gubbi]

That is what I thought too first. But this is clearly getting out of hand with different states taking its own steps and refusing a co-ordinated patrolling.

Bringing in the Army is soon becoming inevitable. Right or wrong is a moot point. You cant have a parallel Government being run by armed thugs.

That is a vicious cycle. Bringing in the Army will undermine the faith in local law enforcement institutions. This will further play into the maoists ideology that the government does not work and military firepower is being used to suppress genuine demands, fueling further discontent among the population. The Maoists basically influence the poor using this very premise - that the present government does not work for the poor. This will give more credence to the parallel government run by these thugs in the people's eyes over the legitimate elected representatives.

What we actually need are major political reforms. Someone with huge steel balls got to do it.

It was once, not now.

You don't call thugs running illegal mining mafia to the tune of 2000 crores and bumping off people at random branding them as informers, blowing up schools, bridges, roads, telecom/electric towers as caped crusaders fighting against the evil capitalists.

I was mocking the ideology of these naxals. They tend to preach water but drink wine.

 

[Jon Snow]

This situation has taught us how unequipped, unprepared and under trained our paramilitary is..... and instead of calls to further equip them and train them we have people calling on the army?? the army is already stretched..... to face china we are having to create more divisions, the army cant be brought on to fight the maoists..... also bringing in the army could escalate the situation as the native population will start to believe that the government is against them....

 

[Omega007]

This situation has taught us how unequipped, unprepared and under trained our paramilitary is..... and instead of calls to further equip them and train them we have people calling on the army?? the army is already stretched..... to face china we are having to create more divisions, the army cant be brought on to fight the maoists..... also bringing in the army could escalate the situation as the native population will start to believe that the government is against them....

Ohoho!You want the army to fight China/Pakistan to save our India huh?Well,let me tell you pal,if we don't wipe the naxals out now there may be no India to save.Think with your brain,not your heart pal.The moral of the paramilitary soldiers has been degraded.I think you don't know the bitter ground realities.You are thinking about the adivasis but not about the poor soldiers.Why?Are not they indians? Actually you can't understand their situation because you probably have not lost anyone.

 

[Jon Snow]

Ohoho!You want the army to fight China/Pakistan to save our India huh?Well,let me tell you pal,if we don't wipe the naxals out now there may be no India to save.Think with your brain,not your heart pal.The moral of the paramilitary soldiers has been degraded.I think you don't know the bitter ground realities.You are thinking about the adivasis but not about the poor soldiers.Why?Are not they indians? Actually you can't understand their situation because you probably have not lost anyone.

I am thinking about the indian soldier, thats why i advocated better training...... no india??? buddy those guys are only a couple of thousand men, who have very good knowledge of the jungle and use it to their advantage, if thats what took a nation like india to fall, then there would not have been any nations left...... the CIJWS is world renown- US soldiers came there to learn jungle warfare..... If the paramilitary is given training like that and proper equipment like night vision, thermal imagery, tavors, etc the maoist problem will be solved in a matter of months