Op-ed/Commentary by Dr Kumar Ramakrishna, Associate Professor; and Provost’s Chair in National Security Studies; Associate Dean; Head of International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR); and Research Adviser to National Security Studies Programme (NSSP) and Ms Stefanie Kam Li Yee, Associate Research Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS).