Tuesday, December 02, 2008

How to Drop Hostages Instead of Tangos


"Discharge your weapon like this...

Five hostages and two terrorists were killed in the Indian commando raid on Chabad House. That's a losing score by anyone's tally. My guess is that the Mumbai attacks will affect the Indians in the same way that it affected the Germans after Munich. The Germans, embarrassed by their commandos' performance during the '72 hostage crisis, stood up the GSG-9 in 1973 to prevent future tactical mismanagement. Thirty some years later, Deutsche counter-terror operators are ranked amongst the best in the world. India, which borders several exporters of terrorism, would be wise to follow suit.

The Israelis, who are widely considered to be top-dog when it comes to counter-terror ops, were swift to condemn the Indian Army's performance: "
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1 Comments:

Blogger CI-Roller Dude said...

The diff between the Indian cops/soldiers and the Germans is:
the Germans try to do everything perfect! They'll train and work hard to have better commandos etc...
The Indians are....well....we'll see...but I don't think they have the will or the balls to do any better.

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