{"id":33704,"date":"2018-10-30T14:03:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33704"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:03:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T08:33:34","slug":"lessons-unlearnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lessons-unlearnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons unlearnt\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/editorials\/mumbai-26-11-attack-nine-years-later-lessons-unlearnt-al-qaeda-attacks-terrorism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lessons unlearnt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nine years have passed since the grim events of 26\/11 but India has forgotten nothing and learned nothing.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What is are the impacts of 26\/11 tragedy?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">26\/11 caused two key ruptures in India\u2019s politics and public discourse:<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It led to a distillation of public frustration with police and intelligence services, which seemed unable to protect India\u2019s citizens.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It crystallised the rage of citizens against the Indian state\u2019s inability to act on Pakistan\u2019s sponsorship of terrorist groups. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the drawbacks India\u2019s security and defence?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New organisations meant to fight terrorism, mostly are chronically <\/span><b>under-resourced. <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s intelligence services remain<\/span><b> desperately short of resources.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are<\/span><b> chronic shortages from language and area specialists, to personnel with specialist technology skills.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> India has been <\/span><b>unable to fulfil its commitment to modernise basic policing and emergency services.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Forensics, investigation and intelligence capabilities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are abysmal.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusions:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next 26\/11 will always lurk just around the corner <\/span><b>unless the elements which went into its making are addressed.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lessons unlearnt\u00a0 Context: Nine years have passed since the grim events of 26\/11 but India has forgotten nothing and learned nothing. What is are the impacts of 26\/11 tragedy? 26\/11 caused two key ruptures in India\u2019s politics and public discourse: It led to a distillation of public frustration with police and intelligence services, which seemed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lessons-unlearnt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lessons unlearnt\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704904080},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}