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Thursday, May 21, 2026
TopicNational Security Doctrine

Topic: National Security Doctrine

India’s strategic pillars are crumbling. Complacency is not an option

Gen MM Naravane (Retd) -
Within the modern-day Samudra Manthan lies the opportunity for India to redefine its role on the world stage by building a robust, adaptive security architecture.

India has ditched the old, tragic way of dealing with threats. Now it prepares before crisis

Abhishek Chaudhari -
After the 1993 Mumbai blasts, 2001 Parliament attack, and the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, India found itself reacting rather than responding.

India’s national security doctrine is finally in the works. It must be debated in public

Sanjeev Chopra -
The NSD should be debated threadbare in Parliament rather than in the cloistered confines of a few think tanks and policy groups.

After calls for Muslim Ocean & Afro-Asian Ocean, Pakistan has made peace with Indian Ocean

Sanjeev Chopra -
One of the most important points in Pakistan’s National Security Policy is the grudging acceptance of the name ‘Indian Ocean’.

Challenges to a credible national security doctrine

AVM Arjun Subramaniam (retd) -
As the Prime Minister calls for development of intellectual capital within the armed forces, it is time for a credible National Security Doctrine.

If India starts now, it can finally have a National Security Doctrine by 2022

AVM Arjun Subramaniam (retd) -
The widespread international image of India as a ‘soft state’ must be dispelled by the creation of a national security doctrine.

It’s time for India to formulate a national security doctrine

AVM Arjun Subramaniam (retd) -
Having a national security doctrine helps avoid ambiguity about dealing with a crisis and to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

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Opinion

Norway’s Modi cartoon was not satire. Just colonial laziness

Stela Dey -
Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.

Court must stop playing theologian. Approach Sabarimala through religious freedom lens

We’re not ready for ‘One Case One Data’. Court records are too unorganised for digitisation

Economy

Recovery of unclaimed shares, dividends now takes days, not yrs. EAC-PM credits investor watchdog revamp

Udit Bubna -
PM-EAC paper says overhaul of Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority system sharply improved processing speed and reduced paperwork for investors.

Defence

Dragon’s armour: How Xi reshaped China’s military with theatre commands a decade before India’s push

Akshat Mohan -
While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.

National Interest

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Shekhar Gupta -
Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.

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