INSURGENCIES IN NORTHEAST ASIA: Moving Towards Resolution

Insurgencies in NorthEast India: Moving Towards Resolution Insurgencies in NorthEast India aims at creating an awareness of the current status of this national problem in parliamentarians, officers and officials of the Government of India, and the residents of the NorthEastern (NE) States. The author, combining extensive practical experience in counter insurgency operations with research and scholarship, consider the NE insurgencies within the larger context of our Constitution. Thereafter he focuses his enquiry progressively from our northeastern region to an examination of the insurgencies Nagaland, Manipur and Assam, and then critical assesses the employment of security forces in counter insurgency (COIN) operations. He concludes with recommendations for the way ahead.