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Troop deployment

Sir, — Sandeep Dikshit's report, "It was a fruitless deployment of troops" (March 9), starts with the statement "India not only wasted a strategic opportunity by opting for a fruitless 10-month forward deployment of its troops, but it strengthened Pakistan's perception that the nuclear threat works". The rest of the article, which is full of unsubstantiated conjectures, continues on similar lines and quotes a "security analyst" Satish Kumar in support.

Strangely however, no mention or even opinion, is made of what was "the strategic opportunity" provided to India and how it could have been made "fruitful". The report ends with the somewhat profound statement that "Pakistan would continue to remain a long-term security threat... India has to cope with this kind of adversary... must respond to the situation accordingly".

G. Radhakrishnan,
Thiruvananthapuram

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