Monday, October 20, 2008

An Analysis On The War In Sri Lanka

LTTE Fighter. Photo from Current.com

Kilinochchi: The Spectre Of Stalingrad -- Intellibriefs

The Battle of Stalingrad is considered the bloodiest battle with the largest battlefield casualties in the history of conventional warfare. Under a carefully worked out plan, the Soviet Army inveigled an advancing and over-confident Nazi Army into Stalingrad and then inflicted severe casualties on the Nazi Army. Many of those Nazi soldiers whom the Soviet Army could not kill were killed by "Gen.Winter". The entire Sixth Army of the Nazis was trapped by the Soviet troops with the help of "Gen.Winter" and destroyed.

2. As the battle began on July 17,1942, the Nazi Disinformation machine worked overtime to tell an unsuspecting German people that the fall of Stalingrad and the collapse of the Soviet Army were imminent. The German people waited with bated breath for the news of the fall."Within two days", they were told. Two days became two weeks. Two weeks became two months. Two months became seven months. The battle ended disastrously for the Nazis on February 2, 1943. This marked the beginning of the end of the Nazi dreams in the Second World War.

3. Is one seeing a mini version of Stalingrad in the battle for Kilinochchi, the current headqurters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)? It is difficult to say on the basis of the scanty information available from the battle front. From even this scanty information, two things are clear: Firstly, the Sri Lankan Army, which senses victory against the LTTE, has been doing well, but not as well as it claims to be. Secondly, the LTTE has been doing badly, but not as badly as projected to be by the disinformation machine of the Sri Lankan Army . The LTTE has shown that there is still a lot of fight left in it---- and a lot of intelligence and innovative thinking.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are right. LTTE is a very organized military force and i expect to see Stalingrad repeated in Sri Lanka. Srilanka has paid a huge price for this gain in territory but has lost its friends in West and the goodwill of the Tamil people and is in the verge of loosing India's friendship.

steve said...

yes Ltte is a very organized barbarian and they are loosing everyday.they killed their own Tamil peoples and destroy their future by them self.they sending children's to the front by force.very sad..

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