A related article http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Young_officers_lead_from_the_front/articleshow/2430534.cms
BTW Nandakumar - I saw you on NDTV re cybercrime. I sent an SMS saying that the govt should shift to OSS but NDTV ignored my SMS. So much for my importance in the scheme of things.. shiv On Thursday 04 Oct 2007 9:24 pm, Nandkumar Saravade wrote: > shiv sastry wrote: > > On Thursday 04 Oct 2007 8:36 pm, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > >> What exactly was the size of the Rashtriya Rifles detachment going after > >> these militants? Majors command a whole battalion if am not wrong - > >> that's at least two companies in strength, about 150..200 people each, > >> right? What were the losses in that firefight, for 9 militants to die? > > > > Just the two Majors. The surprising thing was two officers being killed. > > > > shiv > > Not so surprising. The casualties in the officer ranks are always > higher. To quote from a recent account, of the Kargil war: > > /This story might trouble some, why is it that officers are given so > much importance, even in the media an officer's death gets more > attention, there is only one way to answer that..quite simply - Its an > officer driven army. The officer is treated special because the officer > leads in battle by example. His message to his troops is always, follow > me, who never asks them to do what he would not do themselves. In Kargil > in most cases it was a young officer that was first to reach the > objective, this Army has the highest officer casualty ratio in the > entire world! To lead from the front, this is the officers creed, not Rs > 15,000 a month! > (http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/showcolumns.aspx?id=COLEN20070021325) >/ > > Majors command companies; a battalion will generally have six companies. > > Nandkumar
