I have been meaning to finish this since November of 2013 and am finally getting around to it today, 23 December 2015.
Understanding this incident is absolutely critical for First Responders AND those who choose to live their lives as legally armed citizens. Mumbai '08 represents a true paradigm shift in terrorist assaults using ground combat tactics involving small arms and improvised explosive devices. The attack was of a long duration and greatly strained local resources causing a delayed reaction to a dynamic, fluid, and rapidly evolving crisis situation and later strongly taxing local responder resources, which further delayed any additional responses.
What we see in Mumbai, sets the precedent for other attacks that followed in time.
This article focuses purely on Mumbai and will be utilized in compilation with other articles to follow over the coming months covering other attacks that, in our minds, were a "product improvement" if you will over previous methods.
Without further ado, Mumbai 2008.
The following were my sources:
-General: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks"
-Timeline: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2008_Mumbai_attacks"
-Confirmation lf LeT status as Terrorist Organization: "http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/let.html"