'Everyman's War : Strategy, Security and Terrorism in India' by former National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) chief Raghu Raman is one of the finest expositions on Internal Security of a highly complex country like India. It is a collection of his essays published in 'Mint'. He introduces certain very important and seemingly original points like hijacking of supply chain network by the criminals, coastal security, human intelligence etc.
We have our Army to protect us from the enemy at the gates but what about the enemy among us. No steel ring can protect us from our internal enemies. 'Human intelligence and community policing' is the only key to secure out neighborhood, our cities and our country from the insidious motives of our enemies. Enemy is not interested in a killing but it is interested in creating a fear in our mind. Terrorism is a kind of asymmetric warfare mainly focused on dual objectives - creating an environment of fear and retarding then socio-economic progress of our country. Though terrorists do come from all strata of our society but mainly they come from rich and prosperous middle class. Jobs and education help but they alone can not wipe out this problem. A society as fissile as us needs to be extra vigilant regarding issues concerning religion, ethnicity, language and caste. Only popular people's movement encompassing all the sections of our population can defeat the very menace of terrorism and extremism till and we can not afford to wait for that movement. We have to start it now. Its a very light book in terms of pages but every page is highly thought provoking.
Highly Recommended (8/10)
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