Is this just inadequate training of the indian police?
(Not trained properly, freeze up under stress?)
I understand that happened a lot in the Falklands. The Argentine draftees were well dug in, had superior numbers, but most never fired their rifles...
Yes.
For example, in these luxury hotels the water is not potable. You can not drink it. You are supplied with bottled water.
So, you have a muncipality that can not supply potable water. How uber basic is that? How hard is it to purify water? Bleach and time.
So, seeing how the municipality, can not deliver drinking water to its most prestigious addresses, you can imagine the quality, or lack of, at the police level.
Another clue is that it wasn’t the city police SWAT teams but the national, Indian military force that dealt with the terrorists.
By and large, I think New York could handle, by its self ten terrorists at multiple locations with out, if it had to, any assistance.
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I don’t think a good looking Argentine, taken away from his hot, steak serving hottie Argentine girl friend gave a fig about dying on some sheep filled rock pile. I read that they were miserable, and had been out in the weather for weeks, with poor to no supply, or visits from higher ups. Not much motivation to wait for a bunch of frozen, wet miserable Brit paratroopers to come out of the dark at you. Other than the miserableness, for the Brits, it was sand lot, basic stuff, of which they were going to exploit any weakness, and make you pay.
I’m not aware of the then Argentine Army officer corps being good for much more than parades, dinners, or rounding up leftist.