Reading the first few paragraphs of Raghu Raman's article "Taking a gun into a knife fight", I thought that he had hit the nail right on its head describing the asymmetrical fight between the security forces and the terrorists. That should not come as a surprise. The guy knows what he is talking about.

What surprised me instead was the later part of the article in which he stopped short of suggesting any concrete measures to help even out the fight. Clearly more is expected of him than the words like 'sustained efforts on creating long-term intelligence and technology-driven capacity' which, very frankly, any of us civilians could have penned.