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  • Indian Army's Counter Insurgency Experience in J&K

    http://www.smallwars.quantico.usmc.m...rksArticle.pdf

    This is a fine article that appeared in the Low Intensity Conflict and Law Enforcement Journal. It's value lies in looking at the macro, meso and micro aspects of COIN operations in J&K, with greater emphasis on Jammu. Some highlights:

    - Despite the large component of the Army compared to the paramilitary, the pattern of deployment is along law-enforcement lines i.e. the judicial component of law-enforcement is emphasized, special acts are promulgated with the option to extend or repeal, deployment is on a grid pattern like police districts.

    - How the nature of the conflict has changed from a mass-mobilization form to a Pakistani special operations form. In the late 1980s, the mass-mobilization was driven as much by lack of employment opportunities to a burgeoning young male population as it was by New Delhi's manipulation of votes.

    A point not made in the article, but is still relevant is how the lack of employment opportunities are created by the un-willingness of the Kashmiris to move outside the state for jobs (thanks to Brig. Ray for this insight). This is similar to the attitude in the insurgency-hit North East and totally opposite to that found in states like Bihar and Kerala. In the late 1990s and now, the popularity of the separatism ideology is virtually non-existent, and the author makes the comparison with the situation in Ulster where the aim of the separatists is to exhaust the state into acceding to their demands via terrorism.

    - The casualty count, if scaled up for population density, falls below that of some US cities like Chicago and Memphis. So the real factor affecting quality of life there is the sum total of dislocation i.e. lack of economic opportunities, mainly tourism as a result of the conflict.

    These are only some of the points made in the article. It is required reading for all Indians and very highly recommended reading for others to get a feel for the complexity of the situation in the state.

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    A point not made in the article, but is still relevant is how the lack of employment opportunities are created by the un-willingness of the Kashmiris to move outside the state for jobs (thanks to Brig. Ray for this insight). This is similar to the attitude in the insurgency-hit North East and totally opposite to that found in states like Bihar and Kerala.
    I think now a days, people from NE are more & more willing to come to cities like mumbai, delhi, kolkatta even southern cities for both education & employment.
    Hala Madrid!!

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