Anyone who has served in North-East with access to intelligence &...

03 groups which have "held" North-East for India, in civil subset, are - Marwaris, Bengalis & RSS.
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Simplified version of what is the issue there - it's social?
The man is at times lazy, doesn't work. The women work & hold the house together. Tribes were predominantly Hindu. The lazy subset was
Also, the effects of Vietnam war, where free flow of drugs & weapons was allowed by West to fight the 'spread of communism' by financing local insurgents through drug money as also undermining
War is long over but the groups/supplies remained intact. So does the business.
With a policy of non 'interference' in
What do young men want? (We have seen it play out similarly in J&K, till date) Easy access to free money which gives access to women.
On the other hand, the 'vaccuum' in economic activities saw the
With a relatively slow opening up of North-East & continued "land locked" geography, these three worked with predominant
Changing demographics with illegal immigration from Bangladesh & of Rohingyas ably supported & encouraged by local govts & politicians across the spectrum, threw up complex & mixed challenges, starting late
The failure of successive Govts in India, both local & national, led to strengthened presence of fringe elements. The Govt was happy as long as the level of violence was "contained".
Ofcourse,
The fractured social fault lines, the foolish strategy of emphasizing diversity instead of imposing political, social & moral uniformity, as pursued by successive leadership for their own goals, left
Had mentioned earlier that the best electronic warfare is one which is not even noticed. And India is an example of same.

He further added "...From the first day, that is from the 3 May itself, Assam Rifle has maintained a neutral stand (in Manipur). So all these narratives that have been coming are agenda-driven. It makes me laugh when I read some of these stupid reports stating that the Assam riffle is favouring one community, not favouring the other. These are nothing but rumours, falsehoods, preposterous. There is no background to this and I can substantiate it with statistics...to call us being biased towards a particular community is wrong...."