Jaideep Saikia is a top South Asian security and terrorism expert. He has served the Governments of India and Assam in security advisory capacities, including a stint as an "Expert on Northeast India in the National Security Council Secretariat". Jaideep Saikia is also a celebrated theorist and expert on Islamic State, al-Qaeda and Islamic terror groups of all hues and denominations. He is an authority on Islamist related violence in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and the Indian sub-continent and has written authoritative papers on the subject - especially after his tour of Bangladesh in March 2016. Saikia who had been a State Guest to Pakistan in 1988 was also a Senior Fellow at the "Vivekananda International Foundation" in Delhi, where he worked with current National Security Adviser Ajit Doval. Jaideep Saikia is also considered to be an authority on the India-China Boundary issue as it pertains to the Eastern Sector and his 2014 theory of the "Line of Amity" (https://www.globalorder.live/post/examining-the-line-of-amity-a-proposed-india-china-border-settlement) has of late, witnessed enormous traction and is being closely studied by experts on boundary resolution. He toured the People's Republic of China in 2002 and held wide ranging discussions on the India-China Boundary issue with top think tank leaders of the country including Wang Hongwei, Ma Jiali, Rong Ying, Shen Dingli and Zhang Guihong. He has co-authored papers on India-China relations with Wang Hongwei and Zhang Guihong. Saikia's paper "Quest for a Chindian Arc" published in Defense and Security Analysis (Vol:22, Number:4, December 2006) is considered to be a masterpiece on India-China relations.

He also lectures on the subject of his expertise in various forums, and is consulted by various government agencies, NGOs and Think Tanks.

He has been a member of different Indian delegations for "Track II Dialogue" with Bangladesh, China, Myanmar and Japan. Jaideep Saikia is also the first person to have translated the Assamese National Song, O Mur Apunar Desh into English. Saikia is the progenitor of novel theories including the "Line of Amity" for the India-China Boundary as it pertains to the Eastern Sector and "Counter Radicalisation" which he has been writing and lecturing about in his bid to replace what he terms is the non-existent animal called De-radicalisation. Jaideep Saikia is also in the forefront in the quest for a counter-terrorism (CT) doctrine for India and his forthcoming book "Terror Transcreated" articulates the need for a CT doctrine for India which in the words of Jaideep Saikia is "one of the most terror afflicted countries in the world ".