SILENCE might have been better—the enemy has now been warned. That's how senior army officers who do the daily grind in Kashmir view home minister L.K. Advani's much-quoted "hot pursuit" strategy vis-avis Pakistan. The BJP, of course, has no dearth of support in the army—given the party's hyped-up national security concerns, where it even thought it fit to exercise the nuclear option. But battle tactics follow quite a different logic. "It would have been more appropriate for Advani to talk about hot pursuit and a pro-active strategy for Kashmir at a closed-door briefing of army seniors rather than to the press," rues a senior army officer. "Secrecy is what makes such operations a success."