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2007-11-09 India-Pakistan

Security Forces use Bangalore Torpedoes to blast through Tiger defense line

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Posted by gromky 2007-11-09 07:37|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 According to Security Forces there was no intention by the troops to hold the ground. Our intention was to destroy their bunkers and return to our defences, a senior Army official told this columnist

The first part of the article made sense to me, but then I hit the bit above. If someone would be kind enough to explain why the Sri Lankan army chose to retreat rather than dig in, I'd be grateful.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-11-09 10:57|| 2007-11-09 10:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Since noone else answered, I'll take a civilian stab at it tw.

IIUC, the Tigers had artillery &/or mortar cover of the bunker areas. Had the reconnaisance teams tried to hold the bunkers they would have been in an extremely exposed position -- and they are a light force themselves. So what they did was to deny the use of the bunkers to the Tigers and then move back to rejoin the larger force, which will no doubt proceed against the bunker area as part of a larger attack.

Posted by lotp 2007-11-09 13:30|| 2007-11-09 13:30|| Front Page Top

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