Happymon Jacob is an associate professor of Disarmament Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is a columnist with The Hindu, and hosts a weekly show on national security at TheWire.in. Jacob is the author of Line on Fire: Ceasefire Violations and India-Pakistan Escalation Dynamics (Oxford University Press, January 2019) and The Line of Control: Travelling with the Indian and Pakistani Armies (Penguin Viking, December 2018).