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CONCEPTS OF WAR

Intense use of underwater explosions by means of scare
charges of varying sizes at random intervals both day and night
in all harbours by SLN, dissuaded the LTTE in attempting to
gain access to the ports disguised as underwater saboteurs to
destroy ships by either placing mines or by suicidal explosions
to cripple the war fighting capability and the economy.

Disruption

The actions of the enemy to disturb and unable the effective function
of the cohesiveness of the troops in combat is termed as disruption.
Disruption could be achieved by enemy through disturbing or targeting
mainly own command and control elements, communication facilities,
logistics network, surveillance and network centric operations. In the
naval context, enemy is capable of disrupting the war fighting capability
through economic warfare and dislocating its military-strategic
infrastructure in the littoral areas through shore strike. 30

During Eelam War II, the LTTE effectively jammed the VHF
communication channels used by tri-services, thereby
disrupting the command and control, and morale of the troops
especially during times of attack until secure communication
was made available for the tri-services.

Escalation

Increasing the intensity of the conflict during the course of an operation
is termed as escalation. Escalation could be achieved through an
increase of quantity and quality of force used and their targets. Increase
of geographical area of operation is called as Horizontal Escalation and
increase of violence indicate the Vertical Escalation. 31

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