Col (Dr) Rajiv Tewari (Retd) is an Artillery officer and holds a PhD from Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore on the AFSPA with special reference to Manipur and Tripura. The author also occupied the Chief of Staff Chair of Excellence at the CLAWS in 2013-14 and worked on the “Surveillance Doctrine for Indian Army in the context of the geo political scenario”. The author regularly writes on current national and defence issues.