When it was seen that soldiers were giving their lives in this war, then PDF members start screaming in 100's of pages and threads that Generals and top brass are doing NOTHING. When the top brass comes up with a new operational paradigm, then PDF members starts screaming that this is unacceptable.
Such a confused diaspora on PDF. Make up your damn mind.
It’s not the “operation” per se, but the methods that it is likely to be carried out. You need local support before the op to separate the public from the miscreants, therefore the op would probably best be served as a police matter (backed up by the military only where necessary). Having the local government, whom the people accept and respect, give approval, even with any and all restrictions they put on it, and even if it moves slowly helps keep public sentiment under control.
In this thread (post 253) I cited the example of the Second Malay Emergency and how Malaysia used the VAT69 police force (police commandos) alongside and increase in rural development to “shape the battlefield”, and wear down the communist guerillas, hiding out across the border in Thailand.
Post in thread 'Operation Azm-e-Istehkam | آپریشن عزم استحکام'
https://defencepk.com/forums/threads/operation-azm-e-istehkam-r-shn-yzm-astxh-am.10002/post-245930
We have already gone through the equivalent of the First Malay Emergency and the 8 year lull (a total of about 20 years), so we are up to where Malaysia was in 1969, meaning we have a 20 year path ahead to reach where Malaysia was in 1989 when the insurgent lost.
I don’t think the Malaysian troops had to make raids in to Thailand. The process was slow but eventually even China, the backers of the insurgents threw in the towel and stopped funding the guerillas. The Guerrilla leader lived out the rest of his life in Thailand.
Ideally we should hope for something similar, a low intensity but persistent police action that negates the influence of the TTP till they have no means of regaining a foothold in society. We need a strategy for the next 20 years, regardless of political party. To do that, it needs to be under the threshold of the ops of years past, hence improved police forces. I give the example of how American police, nationwide, took on the gangs from the mid 90s till the mid 2010s (pre-Covid) and slowly reigned in the anarchy, in measurable ways that didn’t show a big armed presence.
The world had this image (pre-Covid) and they were right, that it was a very safe city. But in the 90s, it was rough, I remember, I grew up in it.
Citing this methodology/strategy of doing what was done in Malaysia
should actually impress the Chinese we are hoping to assuage with this whole “operation” in the first place. What can be sought from China are means and methods to improve the KPK police and do only do what is agreed upon with the government of KPK. I agree PTI should be allowed to veto any action, but be forced to negotiate the Rules of how police operations can be done, because we know CPEC needs to stay on track; we still have to pay the debts and we better hope the projects get done for all the financial pain the nation is going through. The nation will be damned before it lets a few TTP miscreants try to derail CPEC.
P.s. being pro-PTI doesn’t make one pro-TTP, not by a long shot. Most people are pro-PTI because they just want good governance and a change to the status quo, especially in the “confused diaspora”, but that’s a separate topic for a separate thread.
Second P.S. something the military could, in the meantime, is buy aerostats, that can stay up for weeks, from China and get a wide area surveillance camera suite (thousands of camera stitching live feed together) with a field of view of at least 5 km in diameter. then they can watch for any trouble happening go in areas around the CPEC projects and the routes workers take, and have police investigate anything suspicious.
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Btw, the Wide area surveillance In the previous videos are 10-15 year old tech. It could probably be done with better cameras for a lot less and be able to be miniatured such that it could probably fit on a CH-4 drone, that can be put in orbit over an area, once a day, and swapped out or moved as necessary.