View: How counterinsurgency operations can succeed in Chhattisgarh
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Last Updated: Apr 06, 2021, 03:12 PM IST
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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
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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 the early 1980s my father was the additional collector of Kanker, now the ground zero of the insurgency. And we made two visits there and the surrounding areas; how peaceful it was, with visits to scenic places thrown in. Peaceful? Or so we thought. When the insurgency exploded in our face a decade or so later, I asked him how it had reached such a stage.
Carjacking suspect shot by officer after firing weapon at police in SE Houston, HPD says
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The shooting was reported about 1:25 a.m. in the 7600 block of Airport Boulevard.
According to HPD Executive Assistant Chief Troy Finner, an officer saw a vehicle traveling nearly 100 mph on Telephone Road about 12:45 a.m. Officers said the vehicle then went eastbound on Airport Boulevard and dispatchers warned officers that a black Mercedes Benz was taken at a gas station on Beltway 8 near Telephone Road.
Police said when one of two patrol officers saw the vehicle and tried to approach the suspect, identified as 28-year-old Danielle Pope, got out of the vehicle and fired several shots at officers. Finner said one of the officers began firing back at the suspect, striking him once. Officers said they administered first aid on the suspect before he was taken to Ben Taub Hospital in serious condition.