Red Lines Redrawn: Operation Sindoor And India’s New Strategic Threshold – Book Review

Red Lines Redrawn: Operation Sindoor and India’s New Normal is a timely and substantial contribution to the literature on crisis management, deterrence, and limited war under nuclear conditions. Written by a group of senior Indian military and diplomatic practitioners, the volume examines India’s response to the April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack and situates Operation Sindoor within a broader reassessment of India’s security doctrine.

Rather than presenting the operation as an isolated act of retaliation...