This strategy has no alternatives. This is where the role of the media is necessary and important. Its role should be quite different from its role in a conventional war. War is one of the factors which has contributed to the escalation of crimes. It has been so, wherever war has erupted.
War bleeds the country economically.
It becomes a good source of income to some segments of the society. It creates innumerable social problems. It leads to bribery and corruption. The emergence of a military bureaucratic apparatus in the administration may seriously dampen the democratic functioning of the society - All these tend to generate and escalate crimes in the society. Crime today has become another scourge of the society.