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National security strategy
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- Recently, Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda (retd.), who led the 2016 surgical strikes as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Army’s Northern Command, elaborates on a vision document on national security that he presented to Congress president Rahul Gandhi.
- He speaks on the politicisation of the armed forces and the role of surgical strikes as an anti-terror tactic.
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- Need of national security strategy: There has always been a talk that India needs a national security strategy which will serve as the basis subsequently for other organs of the government and military to be able to come out with their own respective defence policies and doctrines.
- There are five pillars of national security strategy that we need to focus on:(1) How India stands in global affairs? and What should India’s place be in national affairs and how should we have relationships with major powers and so on.(2) How are our dealings, not only with Pakistan and China, but with other regional neighbours and how can our cooperation grow?(3) Resolving our internal conflicts.(4) Protecting the people.(5) Building our capabilities-Border management posture, military capability, indigenisation, restructuring of police, cyber, nuclear, space and strategic communication capabilities.
- Larger perspective:(1) He said, we should not look at national security narrowly from the spectrum of Pakistan or terrorism, What does our population want, what are their aspirations and how do we meet them?(2) There are major issues of economy and jobs. Those issues should also be brought to the front.
Source
The Hindu