A closer look at beefing up Jammu’s counter-terror grid
For the last couple of years, the Jammu region has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, and more so over the last few months. Editorial | A new trend: On militancy in Jammu and Kashmir Recently, news of Assam Rifles troops being inducted in the Jammu region to strengthen the counter-terror operations in the region has been reported by various news agencies, electronic and print. Establishing a grid A counter-terror deployment grid entails units and sub-units deployed in a manner to dominate the likely vulnerable areas that have the potential to offer terrorists freedom of movement. In a nutshell, an additional unit inducted needs to be deployed and tasked as an integral body of troops and must be allowed sufficient time to gain control in the new area, supported by the existing command structure of brigades/sectors — against a mathematical distribution and deployment that is bound to be counter productive. Colonel Shashank Ranjan is a retired Infantry officer with substantial experience of having operated in counter-terror operations in the Jammu region to include command of a Rashtriya Rifles battalion.
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