Articles about Sri Lanka
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Eelam War/A Soldier’s View
Options or COAs for Sri Lanka Air Force basically are no different than for the Army or the Navy. 1. To become an ‘air farce’! 2. An expeditionary air force that has bold pilots, who can match or surpass the bravery and innovative tactics of...
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Eelam War/A Soldier’s View
What to Do or What Can GOSL Do with the Big Military?
a. Sri Lanka Army: A distraught army in a dilemma-a politicized and divided army, more than ever, by an army commander who might be punch-drunk (or suffering from Dementia pugilistica-It is...
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Eelam War/A Soldier’s View
WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE NOW NOT TO HAVE TIGERS IN CAMOUFLAGE FATIGUES EVER THE WAY FORWARD- SWEAT MORE IN PEACE TO BLEED LESS IN WAR a. Duty of GOSL: This is a sine qua non! Never waver, dither or vacillate in what to do with the captured LTTE camps...
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Eelam War/A Soldier’s View
a. Two Costly Mistakes LTTE Committed: The Killing of Rajiv Ghandi and the closing down of Mavil Aru sluice gates. 1. The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, the seventh Prime Minister of India by the LTTE suicide bomber Gayatri also known as Dhanu...
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Eelam War/A Soldier’s View
r. SLAF Fighter Planes: Though it is expensive to buy, operate and maintain or was not meant to engage in dog fights with rudimentary Tiger Air Force’s four in number Zlin Z-143s small aircraft, the Israeli built Kafirs, Russian built MIGs and...
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Eelam War/A Soldier’s View
o. Sniper or Marksman Training: When Sri Lanka military officers ushering in the New Year 2006 while dancing in New Year ‘eve parties with their ‘date’, girl friend, own wife or disgracefully somebody else’s, like an ex-SLAF commander did...
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Eelam War/A Soldier’s View
a. Technology: The one of the few single most important things that helped the troops ‘during the final war was technology. Definition: Force Multiplier-a capability that, when added to and employed by a combat force, significantly increases the...
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Eelam War/A Soldier’s View
MILITARY: The military aspect of defeating LTTE. The Techniques, Tactics and Procedures (TTPs), equipment, people and factors that helped or were deployed, employed or utilized to defeat the LTTE militarily. a. Failed Strategy: When SLA (Ealam War...
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Eelam War/A Soldier’s View
Those were the four main players in the diplomatic warfront who acted as the Great Wall or fire wall, moats, bulwark or whatever you call it against the audacious onslaughts of Stein, Boyle, and MIA and subtle machinations of the likes of Pillai,...
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Eelam War/A Soldier’s View
Let Us Now See Here How Others ‘Collectively’ or as a ‘Team’ Won the War!
What factors contributed? Who was instrumental? The Contribution of Instruments of National Power: Diplomatic, Informational, Military and Economic (DiMe), all of...
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