National Security Strategy (India)

The National Security Strategy (NSS) of India has not been defined since its Independence in 1947. Framing an NSS has remained a major policy goal and challenge of successive Indian governments.

In 2007, a draft National Security Strategy was prepared by the Integrated Defence Staff, but was not approved by the Cabinet Committee of Security.

The Defence Planning Committee (DPC), a senior decision-making mechanism created In April 2018 by the Central Government of India, according to the notification issued by Indian Government the DPC, will have several mandates including a task to prepare a draft National Security Strategy for India.

In 2019, the Indian National Congress came out with a document 'India's National Security Strategy', also called the Hooda report, which was subsequently integrated into its manifesto.

In March 2021, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, at a talk at the College of Defence Management, stated that "some important steps that we need to take, include-- defining the national security strategy [...]."

The Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020 contains reference to the "National Security Strategy/Guidelines (as and when promulgated)".

• National Cyber Security Policy 2013

• Peri, Dinakar (7 July 2021). "N.N. Vohra pitches for publicly known national security policy". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X.

• PK Khup Hangzo, Associate Fellow (10 April 2020) Rethinking National Security in an Age of Pandemics. Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF).

• Arvind Gupta (20 October 2011). A National Security Strategy Document for India. Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA)

• Lt Gen (Retd) AS Lamba. Review: The New Arthashastra: A Security Strategy for India. Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS)