Publication

This brief explores the correlation between internal discord and state security in the context of democracy, policy and military institutions in India. The author argues that the erosion of one facet of the trinity cannot leave the other two undamaged. Policy makers and its implementers fail to recognize that internal disturbances are not a unitary or even a phenomenon whose resolution is wholly a task of the military, but a compound of many elements ranging from politics to technology to administrative incompetence to human emotions.