article on Indian defence system and its role in internal security
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To save the country from the external invasion and from the internal disturbances a well maintained defense system has been set up in our country. The President of India is the supreme commander of the country’s defense system. The whole administrative control of the Armed forces lies in the Ministry of Defense.
The whole defense system has been divided into three services-Such that Army, Navy and Air force. The Ministry of Defense and the three services headquarters exercise all operational and administrative control of the Armed Forces.
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Henry Kissinger offered a pithy definition of foreign policy a few years ago when he described it as “the art of establishing priorities”.1 This commonsensical definition can be applied to defence policy as well.
But then, one of the staples of the popular and even academic discourse on India’s national security during the last few decades has been the assertion that India does not have a defence policy. Such a view is widely shared not only by Indian and foreign scholars and analysts but also by retired high-ranking civilian and military officials. Thus, George Tanham famously asserted that Indians do not have a history of thinking strategically.2 Indian decision makers do not engage in purposive action. Instead, they react in an ad hoc manner to the actions and initiatives of other countries, as Bharat Karnad as well as VP Malik and Gurmeet Kanwal have argued separately.3 It is also contended that India’s ad hoc approach is most evident in how it has been arming itself since the 1950s – without aim or purpose, an argument that was first advanced by Chris Smith in the 1990s and reprised by Stephen Cohen and Sunil Dasgupta a few years ago.