Pakistanis are using mercenaries and saying they are Taliban. The surge is to show that it is happening as per perceived by everyone. When you give negative or positive feedback to a monster the monster use both of them as approval of his actions.
In any case it does not change our SOP and local dynamics. One of my suggestions which many other members have been suggesting is to go even high caliber, use drones and air assets.
This clinical approach is not discouraging enough because the losses are not allowed to seated in the minds by controlling the information and get compensated by well oiled local support system.
Also there is no harm to learn from Pakistani operation it has done in it's North Waziristan territories.
Few nations go after family assets and impose heavy fanancial penalties on families of terrorists. The most important here is to cut financial and moral support loop. In our case the librandu eco-system and opposition parties will make sure the narrative of victimhood spreads even more. We all know what will happen in courts too.
So change of tactics has to come as not investing in peace and prosperity which is being transferred to feed terror enterprise but continuous instability. Rehabilitation of KPs and moaning day and night about restoring peace is very stupid approach.
Reduce every township to a level of Syria, Lybia and North Waziristan. If not all just start few pilot projects for select townships. Create a humanitarian crisis and exodus of people towards urban north Kashmir townships. Reduce population load all around loc and IB.
We can always rebuild these townships and show the world how development is back like Pakistanis are doing these days.
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Picture source Dawn dot com.
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Source Guardian. Jamrud town Kyber.