Urbanized Greyhound
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The problem is these areas are heavily forested, and many of these terrorists being local tribals know the forest inside out. On the other hand the police forces were never trained for these kinda operations. They have started retraining the police forces in jungle warfare now. So hopefully we ll see some results soon.
The problem is there are a lot of ego issues amidst the different forces in our country . If we see objectively , we have already been training our forces in these kinds of warfare since 5 decades -- The jungle warfare school in Vareingte, Mizoram has been imparting counter-isurgency training to our military and paramilitary cadets for decades . These troops have even used the tactics taught in that school in dealing with the North -eastern insurgency with great success for many years .
Stuff like camouflage , blending in with the local populace , striking silently , identifying targets , jungle warfare etc etc . has been taught in the country for decades --- but sadly due to weak , political leadership , inefficient bureaucracy and our Army chief's opposition to using troops for anti-maoist ops ....these valuable and deadly skills are never used when they are needed greatest....just a sad state of affairs .