"Unfamilliar with the terrian"? What an entirely stupid thing that keeps getting parroted on blindly. This was not Mars, this was terrain all would have been trained to operate in-the NSG's by nature will be operating in locations that they may not have specifically conducted drills in before but so what? Has the Army's SF been throgh every inch of that base before hand?
No, operational control remained with the NSG at all points- does this idiot really expect us to beleive that the DSC had operational charge of this mission at any point? This is intellectual dishonesty and this clown is purposely trying to disparage this operation.
Makes an entirely unquantafied "Garuds continue to struggle for operational relevance"- doesn't expand on how this affected the operational element of this operation.
So the Garuds were just flapping about, running around asking their leadership "what am I? what do I do? Please, what is my operational relevance??" whilst this fight was on? This seems to be the scenerio this scumbag is trying to imply. Just because he doesn't know what the role of the Garuds is doesn't mean they don't and it doesn't mean his ignorance should translate into belittling the capabilities of men who spend 3 years training just to become part of this unit.
How does being unacquainted with the terrain lead to the loss of life in that incident? Again, an attempt to present half truths to back up a flawed hypothesis.
And not losses plural- a loss, singular (still one too many).
How can he know what would and hwat would not have "fooled the army", is he aware of the exact nature of the incident? Is he claiming that the head of the NSG's bomb disposal unit didn't know what he was doing? Is he ignoring the fact that this officer came from THE EXACT SAME ARMY that he claims would have known better- just because?
Simply a lie. Actually look at the NSG today and tell me they are "strapped for equipment".
Another blatent lie.
A base measuring half the landmass of Mumbai is hardly a confined space. And this analysis entirely ignores the Indian military's established CT doctrine that is to attempt to catch such guys alive and to refrain from declaring an operation over until an offical "render safe" procedure has taken place.
On the very last line the entire basis for this being a success is presented, "one of the upsides"- presenting the success of the sole objective of this mission (and primary target of the terrorists) being acheived in such a diminshed manner so as to make this detail seem almost trival is almost unfathomable.
This is typical mentality of the Indian media/intellectuals who seem to look for faults in every single incident of this nature, even when operations were going on you had scoundrels like Burkha Dutt asking why the NSG had not replaced the DSC for perimiter security duties. However this analysis is a step further, it doesn't seem to be the result of pure ignorance (as is the general trait in the Indian media) but a clear agenda to see failure. This peice isn't just asking questions but presenting blatent lies and misrepresenting the truth, it is unacceptable.
Oh and presenting the death of the NSG's BDS head as incompetence on his part was a particuarly classy argument.
Only in India do you get the space for this kind of questioning not only as the operation is still going on but before it is even clear what exactly has happened, before a full account is even made public and without any facts whatsoever to base criticsm on. In a natio of a billion you'll always find enough idiots to argue what you like but that doesn't mean you give them the platform to do it. Contrast this to the coverage of the Paris attacks.
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