@inbook{10.7249/mg210a.9, ISBN = {9780833036827}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/mg210a.9}, abstract = {India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka comprise three important states of South Asia. All have extensive experience with confronting civilian militant groups and criminal organizations that employ violence for various political, economic, and organizational ends. These states, particularly India and Sri Lanka, have contended, to varying degrees, with organized campaigns of violence in rural and jungle areas. For example, India has been struggling with insurgency in the dense jungle terrain of its northeast. Sri Lanka has also fought the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers) in the jungle terrain of the Jaffna Peninsula that forms}, bookauthor = {C. Christine Fair}, booktitle = {Urban Battle Fields of South Asia: Lessons Learned from Sri Lanka, India, and Pakistan}, edition = {1}, pages = {1--10}, publisher = {RAND Corporation}, title = {Introduction}, year = {2004} }