NATO general seeks extra troops as Taliban poses major problems - Indian commandoes ready to help
Balaji Reddy
Sep. 7, 2006

Talibans use hide and seek warfare and NATO is struggling to cope up to that. According to media reports, NATO's top commander on Thursday urged allied nations to send reinforcements to war-ravaged southern Afghanistan, where resurgent Taliban militants are inflicting heavy casualties on foreign forces and captured a remote town from police for the second time in two months.

What Talibans are doing is called wait, hide and strike. It is difficult to handle this type of warfare for established armored infantry and air forces in a rugged terrain like Afghanistan.

These Taliban fighters have secret routes to their bases in the Pakistani tribal regions in the Pakistan-Afghanistan borders. They strike, cause trouble and then run away to hide outs though secret tunnels and passes within the rugged mountains.

The solution may be a little different. Some think tanks believe that Indian Army especially the Gorkha regiments may be the only one that can provide adequate challenge to the Talibans.

Like in Kargil war between India and Pakistan, when the enemy are entrenched within higher grounds, ready to use any tricks to strike and run away, you need soldiers that are not afraid to chase these hide and seek operators into their sanctuaries. Indian Army demonstrated that in Kargil and may be the only choice for NATO.

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