Way Forward on anti terrorism
As movement begins towards de-escalation, India lays out big red line!
This is a new India Doctrine on terror. For years, India has not a conceptual military response to proxy war by Pakistan -the idea of slow bleeding with a 1,000 cuts - beyond wearing it out and this has always given Pakistan a way to get around conventional superiority, combined with nuclear sabre rattling. Now, by drawing a big new red line on terror and how India will respond to cross border terrorist attacks, India is creating a new paradigm. It started with the public surgical strikes after Uri in 2016 (previous governments didn’t make such actions public), went a step up with Balakot in 2019, an entire new dimension with the multifarious air strikes after Pulwama (including in Bahwalpur and Muridke) and now it’s being conceptualised into a new doctrine.
Good move - and shows strategic clarity. more