The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India by Anit Mukherjee

Kishore Kumar Khera

Archive data: Person was Research Fellow at IDSA Group Captain Kishore Kumar Khera, VM (Retd) was a Research Fellow at the Military Affairs Centre in the Institute for Defence Studies… Continue reading The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India by Anit Mukherjee read more

Defence, a subset of national security, is an intricate subject. Primarily, defence policy and plans of a state emerge from its national security strategy to achieve its national goals. What happens when a state does not have a declared national security strategy? All stakeholders interpret the security scenario in their way and invariably pull defence policy and plans in multiple directions. Such has been the tale of Indian defence policy and plans since independence.

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