India will push ahead with an offensive against Maoist rebels despite the death of 76 government troops in an ambush by insurgents in the east, the country's top security official said Wednesday.
The ambush in a dense forest Tuesday was the deadliest single attack on government fighters in the 43-year-old insurgency. It stunned Indians, highlighted the growing threat posed by the Maoists and showed that the rebels appeared uncowed by a government offensive aimed at crushing them.
While India is stunned, they'll push on.
I wonder if we'd be able to keep going these days if we suffered such a defeat..
I'm actually fairly shocked that in the many years we've battled insurgents and terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, we've never had a single-battle loss anywhere near that great. It isn't actually unusual for insurgents to be able to pull something off like that. yet we've never had a platoon or company overrun on patrol or in its outpost, despite some efforts to do so.
