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Topic
Examine why India requires a clear National Security Doctrine in the current geopolitical context ?
Introduction
- A National Security Strategy document outlines the nation’s security goals and the methods intended to achieve them.
- It outlines both conventional and unconventional threats and opportunities, while assigning responsibility to entities entrusted with these responsibilities.
- A national security strategy would guide military and essential defense and security reforms with strategic implications, providing a comprehensive overview of national security, challenges, and a roadmap for addressing them.
- Typically, doctrine precedes strategy. Doctrine consists of established principles governing behavior, while strategy derives from doctrine as an action plan.
Body
Why does India need a national security doctrine
- A well-crafted National Security Strategy (NSS) would promote a unified national approach and foster cooperation to leverage comprehensive national power (CNP).
- It would also establish benchmarks for enhancing capabilities in modernization, infrastructure, and the Atma Nirbhar mission.
- The current state of defense planning is uncertain and evolving, with the cancellation of Defence Plans (five years) and Long Term Perspective Plans (15 years). The revised formats of the Integrated Capability Plan (10 years) and Defence Capability Acquisition Plan (5 years) are still being refined.
- The existing system of reviews by the Parliamentary Standing Committee and the Auditor General is inadequate. These should be bolstered by net-assessment and statistical tools for regular audits, and more importantly, for predictive and dynamic goal setting.
- The foremost concern is achieving clarity in operations and streamlining decision-making processes.
Conclusion
- During a recent book launch event, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) shared an insightful perspective on the development of a National Security Strategy (NSS).
- National strategic doctrines are crafted and endorsed at the highest levels of government, such as the Nuclear Doctrine. Lower-level doctrines are formulated at the military-strategic, operational, and tactical levels, addressing various aspects of warfare in the military or management of internal disorder by police and paramilitary forces.
Other points consider
- Difference between strategy and doctrine?
- Chief of defence staff (CDS)
- National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS)
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