Lots of questions here and not many answers yet. There is no clear explanation of who was exactly doing what and why. The relatively inexperienced Indian commandos seem to have been fairly ineffective, were they wisely deployed?

The simplistic "Gee, let's get John Wayne to kill all the terrorists/muslims/foreigners/commies" doesn't seem to have worked too well in real life in general, the notable exceptions having been the SAS rescue of the Israeli embassy in the UK, and the Israeli raid on Entebbe.

I am however somewhat curious about the fact that so much of US self-image seems to be drawn from the period after the US civil war when the US itself was a "failed state" - somewhat as Somalia is today (and the news there may be getting worse as the Ethiopian government seems to be withdrawing troops).

The UK seems not recently to have had such an episode (unless you count the "gentlemen" period of Kent and Sussex, which is both longer ago and more detached from political upheaval).

I suppose one might try to draw a similar-ish parallel for Italy and Sicily in that criminal enterprise expanded into areas of governmental incompetence, but I can't immediately call to mind anything similar in France, Germany, or Spain, and I imagine history is still out on the political changes in the island of Ireland from WWI to date.