I've seen the Peace Corps operating in several nations.
In every case, the overall tone of the volunteers was effectively anti-US government to at least some extent (protective coloration in some cases) and they were far more likely to aid our nominal opponents than us...
In fact, in two nations, they did just that and we were able to get, respectively, one person and several removed from those countries.
Not that the Agency in many cases is much different... :wry:
Desperately sprayed bullets -v- precision artillery
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blueblood
West Bengal's top Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji has been killed in a gunbattle with security forces in Burishol in Lalgarh, West Midnapore, sources in the state police have said.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/to...forces/880038/
This guy has been running the show for the last three decades. COBRA guys finally nailed him.
An update from FP Blog, with some background and details of the final mission:
I was struck by this phrase, the English language used is, well, different:
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Kishenji found himself cornered, and started a firefight that lasted for over two hours. While the guerrilla leader and his loyalists desperately sprayed the forest with bullets, the CoBRAs retaliated with precision artillery.
Link:http://www.foreignpolicy.com/article..._luck_runs_out
We shall have to check on Stan's location.;)
With my ever present METT-TC caveat...
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Originally Posted by
Ray
In fact, in the COIN areas, artillery, armour, RCL guns, MMGs, 81mm Mortars etc are all mothballed!
That is very wise.
Tools available will always be used where they should not be unless troops are truly superbly trained -- an expensive and thus understandably rare case in any Army.
If some standard tools aren't available, then better thinking and tactics are necessary -- and will generally appear...
perception management syndrome
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Originally Posted by
Ray
Our police is inept.
It is only the Army that is organised to take on insurgencies.
Ray, are the mass graves recently unearthed in Kashmir an example of police ineptness, or is there a more pedestrian explanation? What's your take on this?
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Unmarked graves give up their shameful secrets
Every village has stories of men and boys taken from their homes and never seen again, writes Ben Doherty in northern Kashmir.
The police bring the bodies. In the day or night they bring them, wrapped loosely in blankets or in the clothes they wore.
''The bodies come in very bad condition,'' Nizar Ahmed Mir tells the Herald through an interpreter, standing on the steep slopes of the Shaheed cemetery at the end of a narrow dirt road.
''They are bloody, some are in handcuffs, the clothing is torn. Most have been shot in the face, or the face has been damaged, so they cannot be identified. We don't know who they are, we are just told to bury them.''
Unmarked graves give up their shameful secret - Sydney Morning Herald - Nov 12, 2011.