We now move from the map to the rulebook. Every force deployed, every statute enacted and every emergency power exercised in the name of internal security must find its authority somewhere in the Constitution — and must survive the limits the same Constitution imposes. This section establishes who may act, on what subject, by what…
Having settled the vocabulary, we now put the map on the table. This section answers four questions in sequence: what kinds of threat exist, why they arose here, where they are located on the ground, and how their character is changing. It closes with the numbers, because an internal security answer that carries no data…
Every discipline begins with its vocabulary, and internal security is a discipline where loose vocabulary costs marks. A candidate who calls the Maoist movement terrorism, or describes the Border Security Force as paramilitary, or treats a border skirmish as an internal security event, has not made a small slip — he has misread the nature…
