Category
Retaliation
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Naxalite, Retaliation, Security Establishment
Terrain Dominance
04.06.10 | Permalink | 7 CommentsHighly publicized attack on CRPF forces. According to one of only eight survivors from an 80 man unit: It was a mistake to have some jawans take the anti-landmine vehicle. “That vehicle was in front. We were walking behind it. Suddenly there was a blast and the vehicle went up in the air. All the [...]
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Pune, Retaliation, Unbridled Chaos
Provoking Pune
02.13.10 | Permalink | 7 CommentsThis morning, a blast ripped through the German Bakery (a popular destination for the middle class and foreigners alike), killing 8 and injuring 33. Thus far there have been no second order events. My early take on this still-developing situation. This was an attack designed to exploit the ever-present cultural rift between Indian Muslims and [...]
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Controlled Chaos, Escalating Threat, Retaliation, Roads
Preserving the Naxal Equilibrium in Lalgarh
06.17.09 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThe Naxals are, more than a classic insurgency, the enablers of a very robust black market that lends itself to a type of equilibrium called ‘controlled chaos.’ Ongoing events in West Bengal reveal how this type of equilibrium is adjusted in response to stimuli: A Naxal-backed outfit calling itself People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) [...]
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Mumbai, Retaliation, Security Establishment
Internal Security Apparatus
12.03.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsIt is important to remember that the core trade off for increased security infrastructure is economic. Security costs money, decentralized security costs more, and heavily armed decentralized security costs yet more. If these costs are offloaded onto private actors (as many are suggesting the Oberoi should have had its own security systems), we will see [...]
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Naxalite, Retaliation, Security Establishment
Distributed Paramilitary Bases
Likely in response to a recent push by the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force to build forward operating bases deep within Naxal territory the insurgency has stepped up attacks on CRPF forces and installations: January 1. Naxals attacked The attack placed pressure to retreat into existing urban bases. January 18. IED’s are placed to target [...]
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Information Operations, Naxalite, Retaliation
Decapitation Strike In Propaganda War
The editor of the Maoist magazine People’s March has been arrested at his office in Kerala. Bookmark It
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Information Operations, Retaliation, Security Establishment
Jharkhand’s Information Operations
12.19.07 | Permalink | 5 CommentsJharkhand’s underfunded police force has outlined a plan with which they hope to compensate for that lack of resources through a psychological warfare campaign. It is composed of three parts: Television. A 30 minute movie to be broadcast on public television channels including jailed Maoist confessions of criminal acts targeting the public. Radio and Newspaper. [...]
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Bandhs, Naxalite, Retaliation
Provoking the Jharkhand Overreach
Approximately 30 Naxalite men and women dressed as Central Reserve Police Force officers, infiltrated an event to murder vocal anti-Naxalite politician Babu Lal Marandi’s brother. When their demands for his surrender were ignored, they fired 100 rounds from their AK-47s into the crowd of 2,000. Marandi’s son and 17 tribals were killed eight others were [...]
India’s Naxalite Rage
Shlok Vaidya analyzes the far-flung implications of a shifting Indian security environment with a focus on the globally-connected Naxalite insurgency.recent entries
- Firing Los Federales
- Estimated Cost per Naxal? ~$5,000
- Indicator: Madhya Pradesh’s Missing Explosives Convoy
- The Business of Terrorism
- India’s Hidden Innovation Engine and its $35 Tablet
recent comments
- Shlok Vaidya: Hmm. I’ll check my huge backlog of files to see if I can pull anything up. I had read a couple...
- Eric Randolph: I very much agree with this view, reliant as the Naxals are on the willing participation of...
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- siman: Dear Friends, Please Share your basic view regarding the naxlite increasing in india,bcoz we all know the...
- Zuo Qing: Thanks. It wasn’t really apparent in the article itself.