Protecting National Interests in Uncertain Times
A secure internal and external security environment, provided by the military and other agencies will facilitate sustained growth and development of the nation. There is a renewed interest from the world to engage with India in this region as the strategic need to preserve peace, promote stability and maintain security across Indo Pacific is no long a regional necessity but indeed a global imperative.
The sTrATegIc need for nations to protect and promote their national interest in a changing world order has been the centre piece of global strategic discourse for some time now. Linked to this aspect of national interest is the need to build one’s Military capability to prepare for the array of security challenges that lie ahead and also the aspect of developing new partnerships, as the global order shifts from a unipolar model to a multipolar one. There is little dispute that the world today, is characterised by multi-layered and multi-faceted diversity from political, demographic, economic, environmental and strategic viewpoints.
everything around us seems to indicate that the world is in another period of historical transition. Therefore, it would be a fair assumption that we are indeed living through a period of ‘strategic uncertainty’. The world also is in a grip of a global pandemic after a century and at the moment there is no end in sight with numbers growing in our country and the world lives in the hope of a vaccine, which is anywhere from 12 to 18 months away.
It may not be wrong to assume that a perfectly stable world order is a rare thing1.