Irfan Baloch
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the purpose of raising LCB was to relieve SSG from COIN operations but since it was raised I have not seen if SSG has been completely replaced.Consider similar Ops in Afghanistan. It might start from SSG getting dropped in and then extracted, losing 1-2 shaheed in every battle till the tally reaches 50+ shaheeds of SSG after about 25-30 successful Ops. Will this even create a dent ? It might stop attacks inside Pakistan momentarily but what if SSG is required inside also and in Afghanistan, so SSW and SSG(N) become available. Now you have 3 premier SFs of Pakistan dogged down by Ops. The media keeps screaming causalities of Pak SSG while the war has just begun.
just like our ability to provide security to Chinese working on CPEC , the promise of LCB seems to have fizzled out.
UNLESS, UNLESS it is just misreporting and all or most of these IBO's and this curent hostage rescue operation was indeed conducted by LCB but was misquoted as SSG by ignorant reporting.
SSG is our top tier special forces unit which is trained for much bigger and complex operations that hurt a conventional enemy but it is being expended (true loss of specialist personnel trained to fight Indian military) on fighting the TTP for over 20 years .
the LCB must take on the specialist role of Urban warfare and COIN ops without the need for specialist courses like UTD, HALO, Mountain warfare etc. they can always train with the premier special forces branches but they should be the ultimate goto force for all hostage rescue, COIN and IBO operations within the country.