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The Greyhounds’ last leap
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The Greyhounds, a special counter‑insurgency unit formed in 1989 to fight Maoists in Andhra Pradesh, are now reflecting on their past operations and losses as the insurgency wanes. The piece examines how the unit’s history has shaped its identity and looks at how the Greyhounds are planning for a role beyond the Maoist conflict.
WHY IT MATTERS
It highlights how a specialized military unit is adapting to a changing security landscape after decades of insurgency.
Created in 1989 to take on Maoists in the forests of undivided Andhra Pradesh, the Greyhounds became a specialised counter-insurgency force. Over three decades later, as the insurgency recedes, Abhinay Deshpande revisits the force’s battles and its losses, the legacy of a war that shaped it, and how the Greyhounds are preparing for a future beyond the Maoist conflict
This story was originally reported by The Hindu — National. As an automated real-time news aggregator, NewsToolBar provides multi-perspective indexing and AI summarization while directing full readership directly to primary publisher sources.
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