National Security Doctrine for India’s Mains Module 2024/25

Jul 13, 2026

National security doctrine as a concise set of state principles shaping how India’s armed forces, diplomacy, and intelligence advance national goals and manage future challenges. Covers why doctrine is needed, including new domains of warfare (cyber, grey-zone, digital battlefield, proxy wars), gaps from past committee recommendations, and the importance of drafting a strategy before theaterisation. Highlights intelligence and management failures and the role of doctrine in enabling comprehensive national power and policy decision-making.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages305

Reading Time12 h 49 min

AccessFree to download

UPSCCSE 2024/25 GS-3 MAINS MODULE By Dr. Shiv in Ch audhary Merged PDF Elements of National Security | Element of National Security | Details | | | --- | --- | --- | | Military Security | Protection from external military threats | Invasion, Terrorism, Cyber attacks | | | Managing physical threats | Border security, Coastal Security | | Economic Security | National wealth | Economic freedom of state and citizens | | | Ability to protect Economic sectors | | | Energy Security | Manage uninterrupted supply of energy | Security of international and energy assets | | Environmental Security | Climate change | Internal Displacement, Warming War, Migration | | | Pollution | Transnational in nature | | Ethnic Security | Avoid sectional conflict | Maintain National Integration, Promote national harmony | | Cyber Security | Protection of acountry's digital infrastructure | Developing cyber offence and defence capacity | | Health Security | Disease surveillance and early warning systems | Rapid response and emergency preparedness | | Information Security | Protecting citizen's right to privacy | Data Protection Bill | | | Data as a public good | | | | Protection of information that affects national security | | | Resource Security | Water Conflicts | Internal: Cauvery Dispute, External: Indus water dispute | | Political Security | Ensuring national sovereignty | | | | Maintaining stability of the government | | | | Honoring human rights of citizens by the state | | | Geostrategic Security | Military co-operation | | | | Strategic autonomy of Defence purchase | | | | Training | | --- | --- | | Food Security | Addressing nutritional poverty | | | Measures to avoid starvation | | Disaster Security | Mitigation response | | | Quick response | National Security Doctrine What is a National Security Doctrine? A National Security Doctrine is a set of basic principles, based on the core interests of the State, that will shape how different elements of national power protect and further the interests of the Indian Republic. It is a concise summary of a country’s strategic vision and objectives, intended to prepare the nation to manage future challenges. In particular, there is a need to focus on the elements of a strategic doctrine which will identify the general missions and basic principles through which our armed forces, diplomatic and intelligence communities will seek to attain the national goals. | Quotes | | | --- | --- | | The new frontiers of war, what you call the fourth-generation warfare, is the civil society. | Ajit Doval | | “Half-done reforms create new vulnerabilities without solving old ones. You cannot cross a chasm in two leaps. We are today in a situation where many of the reforms begun by the former CDS, General Bipin Rawat are incomplete.” | Shivshankar Menon | | “Three attempts were made to come out with a national security strategy, but there was hesitation at the political level. It could have been

Jul 13, 2026

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