Essentiality of Resilence for National Security in 21st Century India

Prof. Gautam Sen, Col. Ravinder Pal Singh, Lt Gen. Harinder Singh

Author and Thinker on National Security

The Working Paper includes three theme papers- Building Resilience For India’s National Security; National Security Resilience and Capacity Building: 2023- 204; and Building National Security Resilience (NSR) through Military Readiness by Prof. Gautam Sen, Col. Ravinder Pal Singh, and Lt. Gen. Harinder Singh respectively. These papers are the outcome of multiple discussions amongst the authors over a period of time. The deliberations led to a working /position paper is now before the readers. The paper presents a new methodology to incorporate the concept of ‘Resilience’ to achieve workable National Security Policy making architecture. The paper is a work in progress which hopefully, when fully developed, would bring about a paradigm shift from the existing process of weaponisation of National Security Policy. The authors believe that this will produce a holistic paradigm enabling nation states, to concentrate on securitising the non-military dimensions and thus, be instrumental in ushering in peace and stability globally, and among the nation-states, in particular.