Notes from the Bastar battlefield

The Maoists' military formations can be effectively fought only by the deployment of special forces. The attack in May on the convoy of a political party by the Maoists in Jeeram Ghaati, Bastar in Chhattisgarh should not be seen in isolation. It was an act of frustration on the part of the Maoists, aimed at reasserting their ideology against the democratic values of the country. The killing of 76 CRPF men in 2010 near Chintagufa, the hub of Naxal activities in Sukma district, was an indication of the Maoist strategy of entering a phase of mobile warfare. 

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