Dantewada: The Way Forward

The tragedy of Dantewada brings home a sad truth; our reluctance to learn from mistakes already made. My previous post on the Sildah Massacre had brought out some aspects of how underprepared and untrained the Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) had been, but here was a company of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), better equipped and trained in comparison to the EFR, probably better led as well, but they suffered even greater casualties. So what happened - or rather what now? Having gone through the media reports, the reason for the casualties in unclear, but what seems to be emerging is that