The Military Security and Armed Forces

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India's national security and defence is equally the responsibility of all its citizens. They must not only study matters military, but also be alive to dangers to India's security, both from external and internal threats. As regards India's parliamentarians and politicians are concerned, their responsibility in this respect is far more. A notion of cultural security is inextricably connected with the issue of protection of cultural property. For the last few decades, both a growing awareness of necessity for preventing destruction, thefts or smuggling of cultural objects and calls for redress for cultural losses caused by conflicts and colonialism have been noticeable in an international discourse. The Indian Armed Forces is the primary military organization responsible for the territorial security and defence of India. The President of India serves as the supreme commander of the armed forces, which are subordinate and responsible to the Government of India headed by the Prime Minister of India. The armed forces are administered by the Ministry of Defence and are composed of the Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force. Auxiliary services include the Indian Coast Guard, the Paramilitary forces of India and the Strategic Forces Command. This book considers the link between defence, arms spending and economic growth for developing countries, in particular whether high spending on arms is likely to have a negative effect on economic growth and what benefits that might be gained by reducing it.

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Singh, Professor of Political Science, higher education, Madhya Pradesh, he has attended a number of conferences and seminars and presented research papers. He has several articles to his credit published in reputed magazines and journals.

A response to this type of environment calls for a highly focused national security policy and strategy. Effective guidance on national security and defence policy objectives is fundamental to the defence planning process. National security is a relative matter without a firm criteria but unless firm national security objectives are set and a defence policy evolved, there can be no military doctrine or balancing of defence effort with other national objectives and priorities such as maintaining a viable economy and supporting development of society. The lack of a cohesive national security strategy and defence policy has many implications. First, it results in the absence of clear political direction regarding politico-military objectives, which is the very basis of sound defence planning. Secondly, there is inadequate coordination of defence plans and economic development. Finally, science and technology policies for defence, general industrialisation and other development programmes are not coordinated properly to achieve security goals and objectives.

National security issues have hardly been discussed by political parties during Defence budget debates in Parliament. The parliamentary attendance then presents a sorry spectacle. Yet when grave national crises occur every second politician becomes a master strategist or tactician minus the grasp of the essentials of strategy and the intricacies of military operations and oblivious to the fact that the parliamentarians own strategic incompetence brought about the military aggression in the first place.

Military technology is the collection of equipment, vehicles, structures and communication systems that are designed for use in warfare. It comprises the kinds of technology that are distinctly military in nature and not civilian in application, usually because they are impractical in civilian application or dangerous to use without appropriate military training.