Sustainable defence
Subtitle: harmonising long and short term goals
By: Vir Narain.
Contributors: United Service Institution of India.
Series: USI paper ;; 2/97; USI papers ;; 97/2.
Publisher: United Service Institution of India
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: National security -- India.; Military policy -- India.; Economic security -- India.; India foreign relations -- 1984-; India -- Strategic aspects.
First sentence: Questions of national security can be approached from two seemingly different points of view.
Description: National security, and within it Defense in particular, requires comprehensive and long-term perspectives.  This study attempts to look at national security in all its interconnectedness, and to locate its main component - Defense - in its proper time-perspective.  This leads to the concept of sustainability.  Sustainable Defense seeks to meet the security needs of the present without compromising the ability to meet those of the future.
A definition of national security has been offered which links it to the quality of life of the ordinary citizen, moving away from the usual State-centered viewpoint as well as well as from the indeterminate concept of 'core values'.
What has been attempted is not so much to suggest solutions to national security problems as to suggest ways of viewing these problems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-108) and index.
At head of title: Air Marshal Subroto Mukherjee Chair.
Table of contents: label: One
title: The Nature of national Security
pagenum: 1; label: Two
title: Adequacy and Affordability of Defence
pagenum: 10; label: Three
title: The State, the Economy and the Military
pagenum: 30; label: Four
title: Decision Making: Structures and Processes
pagenum: 39; label: Five
title: Strategic Perspectives
pagenum: 56; label: Six
title: Narrowing the Gap
pagenum: 73