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Northlines Brig Anil Gupta(Rtd.)   The nation is shocked yet again with mass causalities of the policemen who were part of an anti-Maoist operation launched in the forests of Bastar in Bijapur district of Chattisgarh, a Maoists infested state. The forces not only suffered large fatal casualties with many seriously wounded and one policeman still missing but the Maoists also managed to escape after the successful operation with a booty of weapons,bullet-proof jackets, boots and other personal accessories of the martyred policemen. What is shocking is the fact that such large losse...

View: How counterinsurgency operations can succeed in Chhattisgarh SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 06, 2021, 03:12 PM IST Share Synopsis The doyen of deterrence theory, Thomas Schelling had written in 1966 that “brute force of adversaries cancels each other but pain and grief do not.” Herein lies the crux of what hurts someone and has a positive follow-on effect, and what does not. A file image of anti-naxal ops beginning in Maharashtra Related The terrible loss of 22 Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) jawans in Chhattisgarh is a grim reminder of the grey zone warfare ongoing since decades. In...

Everyone seems to be captivated by drones and the Indian Army’s demonstration of ‘swarming’ by drones on Army Day seems to have caught people’s fancy. Before anything else, we need basic clarity on what a drone is. Autonomous flying platforms in one form or another have been around ever since aviation came into being but did not have the required smartness associated with such platforms of today. A drone, in technological terms, is an unmanned aircraft. It can be described as a flying robot that can be remotely controlled or fly autonomously through remote controlled flight plans and ...

Helicopters used for anti-Naxalite operations in Chattisgarh are now ferrying netas from both ruling and opposition parties in Assam on their campaign

Vaccine vials and vaccinators are being transported by air to the base camps in the heart of Naxal-affected districts to inoculate jawans of the paramilitary forces. Paramilitary forces are included in phase II of the public immunisation drive, which started on February 3 and covers frontline workers.