How India Manages Its National Security

In this authoritative and comprehensive survey of the challenges a changing global security environment poses to India former deputy national security advisor Arvind Gupta outlines the important aspects of the country's security apparatus and how they interface to confront internal and external conflicts. We have today a turbulent Middle East to the west; a rising and assertive China to the north; Pakistan in the grip of the military and the militants across our border and an increasingly militarizing Indian Ocean region surrounding us. Additionally climate change cyber security and the vulnerability of our space assets are major areas of concern. Anything that weakens a nation weakens its security which makes the issues of food water health economics and governance critically significant. Arvind Gupta draws on his long experience in these areas to argue that instead of tactical remedies a strategic coherent institutional approach is needed to deal with these challenges. Strengthening the National Security Council for instance could be one way forward. How India Manages Its National Security explains with great clarity and thoroughness the concept and operation of India's national security apparatus. This book will be of great interest to practitioners analysts and laymen alike and offer an important voice in the discussion on how national security challenges should be resolved in the decades to come. Review A well-researched and authoritative book covering a wide canvas of security-related issues -- General N.C. Vij former chief of army staffA fine introduction to the organization and management of the nation's security system -- C. Raja Mohan director Institute of South Asian Studies National University of Singapore and columnist Indian ExpressA primer manual analysis and critique of India's national security management . . . Gupta approaches national security from a unique vantage point -- P.S. Raghavan convenor National Security Advisory Board and former Indian ambassador to RussiaIncisively written . . . [a] comprehensive primer which provides an authoritative and meticulously detailed overview of all aspects of India's national security -- Satish Chandra former deputy national security advisor and high commissioner to Pakistan About the Author Arvind Gupta was the deputy national security advisor and headed the National Security Council Secretariat in the Government of India from 2014-17. During 2012-14 he was director general of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses New Delhi. He is a former diplomat. He is also an honorary professor in the Department of Defence and National Security Studies Panjab University Chandigarh. He is currently the director of Vivekananda International Foundation a Delhi-based independent non-partisan think tank focusing on research on foreign policy defence and security-related issues from an Indian perspective.His interests are India's foreign policy security history culture and civilization.