Security Assistance Cooperative Approaches to Counterterrorism

[The Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) sent their Mobile Education Team (MET) to New Delhi, India in 2004 to present a seminar.]

The Department of Defense Regional Counterterrorism Fellowship Program recently funded an especially productive and memorable DIILS MET Seminar to New Delhi, India on the Legal Aspects of Combating Terrorism. The seminar took a look at a range of responses to terrorism, including international law, domestic law enforcement, and the use of military force. The week's instruction included detailed, substantive legal instruction on, and lively, practical discussions of:

* Definitions of modern terrorism;

* Law and legal responses to terrorism; and

* Interagency and multinational approaches to counterterrorism.

This dedicated effort to enhance India's stability, its multifaceted approach to security concerns, and to advance U.S. and Indian relations, is significant because of India's role in world culture, economics, and international security. Home to a 5,000 year old civilization, India is the world's largest democracy. Its 1.049 billion inhabitants, 15 percent of the world's population in the second most populous nation, reside on a landmass roughly 1/3 the size of the U.S. Its armed forces, with over a million troops, are supported with 2.3 percent of India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). India's armed forces have encountered various national security threats since gaining independence from the British Empire in 1947. After the Sino-Indian border disputes of 1962, both China and India have concluded thirteen rounds of joint working sessions to resolve their disputes. …

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