India's recent assertion that every future cross-border terrorist attack will be treated as an act of war -- and its continued invocation of 'zero terrorism' as a national security goal -- reflects a dangerous shift in doctrine, argues
Dr Ajai Sahni, Executive Director, Institute for Conflict Management in the second part of this interview with
Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.Such positions, he warns, hand disproportionate power to small groups of terrorists and set India up for strategic missteps.