Preface

India today faces a formidable challenge to its national security and integrity from a overt war with China in alliances with its two allies, Pakistan and Talibanized Afghanistan, which specialize in covert terror-driven subversion of democratic India. Never before such a formidable combination of covert and overt subversion has threatened India’s geographical integrity and terrorize India’s peace loving population through violence.

Violence to overawe a civilian population to attain political goals is terrorism. This violence is also a tool to dismember a nation. The concern in this study is how to, as Indians, deter terror and safeguard national integrity. In India we see the danger clearly—in Kashmir, Assam, Northeast, as earlier in Punjab. The
dismemberment of India as the goal of Islamic terrorism, of Maoists violence, and of the rump LTTE’s perfidy should no more be doubted. In 1998, Osama Bin Laden identified the USA, Israel and India as the main enemies of Islam and targets for their terrorism. In November 1999 in a rally in Peshawer, the “patron” of Lashkar-e-Taiba reaffirmed this target/goal for India. On 8 June 2007, in a cassette distributed in a mosque in Srinagar, the Al Qaeda further
confirmed that for Islam, India as presently constituted (“Hindu-ruled”) is their target for terrorist acts. Thus, as early as in 2006, India become the nation that suffered the most terror-related killings after Iraq! India has lost over 53,000 lives to terrorism, and nearly 550,000 injured in terror-related violent incidents since 1996. In contrast in all wars since 1947, India today has lost a total
of about 9,000 lives in casualties of war. India is under a terrorist siege today, of Pakistan, Taliban controlled Afghanistan, ISIS and other Islamic religion based terrorists, and Northeast insurgents supported by China and we need now effective total solution not piecemeal Kneejerk ad hoc measures. We can no more allow the malady to fester and become terminally cancerous. Terrorism feeds on a people who feel no bonding as fellow nationals. Thus terrorism and secessionism go hand in hand to balkanize a nation. Is then a
democratic India in danger of balkanization, without nationalism glue?

To be continued...