The main objective of this book is to explore the dynamics of the conflict, cutting across the socio- economic, institutional and human domains.
Colonel Shashank Ranjan was commissioned to 18 MARATHA LIGHT INFANTRY in August 1990. The officer has vast experience of serving in the counter-insurgency / terrorism environment as part of his battalion, in India's Northeast and in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). He has served with the Special Frontier Force and Assam Rifles, and has commanded a Rashtriya Rifles battalion in J&K. He has served as an Instructor at several training establishments of the Indian Army as also done a tenure in a United Nations Peacekeeping Mission. In the year 2004, he participated in a joint exercise with the US Marine Corps. The exercise was themed on 'Low Intensity Conflicts', held in California, US. This book is based on the research that the author carried out while being a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), New Delhi.
