Thanks for the article. I agree that better training always helps, but I guess I was talking about the larger issue here. What is the overall strategy? Engage with them? Bomb them? Escalate the offensive? Bring in regulars? Take action against people in mainstream society who support Maoists? What will the backlash be? Can someone like Arundhati Roy be thrown behind bars for supporting the Naxalites?
What is the official strategy to deal with the entire issue... it's not just about sending better trained recruits into Naxalite areas.
If we talk about actions then its still a debate.
However employing army or bomb them is not a feasible solution for the time being.
Every situation has to escalate to some stage where you have to take final action against it, just like the LTTE in Srilanka.
The most effective strategy and most farsighted strategy( most benificial) will be to start developement activities in these areas with the help of army or well equipped police forces.
The biggest threat to future lies in one thing, and the threat is evident. The naxalites were once in few states and now they are spread over 20 states, and its because?, More and more people joining. Reason?......no developement and this giving the 'IDIOT' leaders a CAUSE to inflate the situation.
I would suggest that.
1. The greater paramilitary police force needs to be established to fight internal situations like the SWAT or the national guard.
2. Equip them with UAVs, let them take data from military sats and stuff with better weapons, Mind it I say NOT with the primary reason to kill the maoists range BUT to support the developement activity in these zones.
3. Extensive survelleince bundled with 'Real time" intelligence, that can foil any attempt or plan to stop the modernization work there.
I know most people will agree here that these areas are in fact "under developed". I mean for 'GOD sake" wake up and address the issue.
4.
Have a strong mind set to arrest the LEADERS of maoists, and arrest them all. like a dead line that in 2 years we will arrest and hang all of them.
if GOI doesnt act now, or act like engaging army then you are only contributing to one thing, manpower influx to a wrong reason.
5. A special law needs to be incorporated or an ammedment to current law. That "any political party if found supporting any anti INDIA cause will be banned and leaders will be sent to HELL"
as we all know there are parties still playing vote bank politics with them....
Someone has to foresee this and its impact on future, and strategize, coz at the end of the day you are dealing with your own people, who you once ignored.....