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Essay On Defence Preparedness

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Defence is a principal component of national power. Defence policy is an integral part of national security policies. It involves strategic decisions about the use of military force in national security. Foreign policy encompasses all military, diplomatic, economic, and security exchanges that take place with other nations. Policy represents articulation of interests, purposes and goals. Defence policy is perennially concerned with the defence of the realm. The Sixth Report of the Standing committee on Defence, 1995-96, defines India's defence policy as a very vital part of national security policy which addresses specific issues directly concerned with the defence of the nation and its territorial integrity. The role of the armed forces is to preserve the core values of survival and political independence against any external or internal threats by deterrence or by waging a war. The armed forces with their secular base and professional ethics also contribute to nation building process.
Defence preparedness is an integral part of defence policy. It is based on certain indicators, such as: time and circumstances under which specific arms are procured by adversaries; strategic implications of the arms procured on the regional security environment; . how .and •in what manner the …show more content…

But what is true is that India has a defence policy and it has been formulated rationally keeping in view the several constraints it has suffered from the international system and at the domestic level. The existence of a formal document does not by itself guarantee an effective policy nor does the absence of such a document imply lack of policy or bad policy. In India's case the absence of a formal document called 'India's defence policy' has neither hampered the process of articulation of responses to the existing threats, challenges and opportunities, nor has the country lacked in raising the level of defence

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