War of a thousand cuts
Three is a general tendency to verbal excess in crises and, in the aftermath of the recent hijacking, one leading columnist declares that ``India has been handed its most serious defeat of the entire Kashmir war.''



Wide Angle
One casualty of the hijack could well be the Clinton visit. The measured enthusiasm with which the government had sponsored a national debate on whether or not India could sign the CTBT possibly even prior to the visit, appears to have been shelved.



Writeback
Defence training establishments do not delve deeply in strategic aspects.There is, however, a major pitfall before such an institution can come into being. Primarily, our political leaders must formulate the political aims so that strategic issues can flow from them.



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