“India’s New Counterterrorism Doctrine Ends The UPA Era’s False Binary Of Diplomacy Or Deterrence”, Swarajya, October 29, 2025
“In October of 1984, specifically between the dates of 9 and 12 October, the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England was going to host the UK’s annual Conservative Party Conference. But the aforementioned dates became infamous as in the early hours of 12 October a bomb explosion took place in which five people were killed, including the Conservative MP Sir Anthony Berry. The primary target of the bombing, the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher escaped unscathed.
Besides the carnage, what became memorable was the grim warning given by the perpetrators, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA): ‘Ms, Thatcher today we were unlucky, but remember, we only have to be lucky once, you will have to be lucky always’.
This warning became the axiom which underscores the vastly random and asymmetric nature of terrorism, in which the odds are stacked in favour of militants, which requires the presence of a strong state with an unflinching approach on counter-terrorism……”
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