Striking the right note, finally

What’s in a name? Pl­enty, pro­vided one mak­es an effort to look for it. In­dia’s recent decision to raise a new “strike cor­ps” for the moun­ta­ins raises just such an issue because “strike corps” are equated with offen­sive operations, in this case in moun­tai­nous ter­rain, where the para­me­ters of warfare in terms of organisations, tactics and equipment are quite different from those required elsewhere.

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