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He points out a critical strategic error: the assumption that a swift, brutal crackdown would cow the population into submission. Instead, it alienated the moderate majority and internationalized the conflict. Matinuddin notes that the army was trained for conventional warfare against India, not counter-insurgency in a hostile terrain where the population was the "sea" in which the guerrillas swam.

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Matinuddin asks the hard question: Why wasn't a last stand made? He answers that it was impossible. With no food, no ammunition, and a hostile population of 70 million, the army had been reduced to a hostage. He concludes that the "Tragedy" was not the surrender, but the 9 months of slaughter that preceded it. With no food, no ammunition, and a hostile