Brahma Chellaney is professor emeritus of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and a former adviser to India's National Security Council. He is the author of nine books, including "Water: Asia's New Battleground."
India retreats further into own territory with Himalayan buffer-zone pullbacks


Chinese troops hold a banner reading, "You've crossed the border, please go back," in Ladakh, India, in May 2013: An incremental, salami-slicing approach of bulletless aggression has come at little international cost. © AP
Brahma Chellaney is professor emeritus of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and a former adviser to India's National Security Council. He is the author of nine books, including "Water: Asia's New Battleground."