Analysis of attack MUMBAI ATTACK 2008
I have included the rubrix and prior work on the attack below.
Past Response and Alternatives: In this section, you will focus on how the government of the country in which the attack occurred responded to the event. You will also consider the impacts of the government’s response and suggest an alternative response. o Discuss decisions that were made and policies that were created in response to the attack to discourage terrorism, and explain the intended purpose of those decisions. You may consider both foreign and domestic policies. o Explain the unintended consequences of those decisions and policies. Consider the following: Did the response negatively impact relationships with other countries? Did the response unintentionally encourage terrorism? o Describe how other countries were impacted by the response, using supporting examples. o Discuss the lessons learned from the government’s response. In hindsight, what did the government do wrong? What did it do right? o Suggest a specific way in which the government could have responded differently to the terrorist attack. o Explain how this alternative response could have changed the current state of the terrorist organization responsible for the attack. In other words, if that alternative response had been used, how might the terrorist organization have been more or less of a threat to the world today?
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Decisions and Policies that were made
The 26/11 attacks in Mumbai were unprecedented events that transformed the meaning of terrorism in India. The attack had significant political repercussions to India as poor government response resulted in the mass sacking of elected officials. Primarily, this was due to the mass protests which brought about sweeping changes across the government (Machold, 2017). In particular, the terrorist attacks reflected the state’s responsibility to provide adequate security and promptly respond to similar situations. This was followed suit by strategic decisions on major institutional overhaul for the governmental architecture in handling terrorism that saw the adoption of the hard modern approaches to policing and security (Machold, 2016).
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