| ID | 135632 |
| Title Proper | Business of coastal security |
| Other Title Information | for the sake of national security, each constituent must plays its fair role |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Chauhan, Pradeep |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In addressing the maritime challenges facing the current government of India, I had, in the May 2014 issue of FORCE, touched upon the imperatives of coastal security. Despite that (or, perhaps because of that!), I am repeatedly asked by my editor, Pravin Sawhney why the Indian Navy — for all its professed sagacity — continues to enmesh itself in the labyrinthine complexities of coastal security? Does it not, he asks, see the mess that the Indian Army has found itself in through its excessive involvement in matters of internal security? Does it not see the pretence that the Indian Army has eventually been forced to put-up vis-à-vis the raising of the Rashtriya Rifles and fancifully feigning that the ‘regular’ Army is still concentrating-upon and honing its battle-skills? Why, he asks, with an obvious and emotive mixture of exasperation and plaintiveness, does the Indian Navy insist upon risking its core war-fighting competence and very raison-d’être, for the extremely dubious advantages of gaining centrality in the politically-driven imbroglio of ‘policing’ as a means of sustenance of internal security? |
| `In' analytical Note | Force Vol.12, No.3; Nov.2014: p.4-10 |
| Journal Source | Force 2014-11 12, 3 |
| Standard Number | National Security |