Securing India:Treating Unlikely as Likely

There is much to gain by disengaging from military suppression of popular aspirations, insisting on negotiations and thereby reducing the total defence budget. All this can help pay for a much needed increase in social investment and expansion of the country's social capital base. An actual reduction in the wasteful use of human and material resources could translate into considerably more. Not the least of this would be the release of pent-up energies of the people unburdened by war and want. In short, the security thus brought about is worth fighting for.