New Delhi, April 16 -- The demand for a declared National Security Strategy (NSS) is rightly a matter of public debate and open analysis by strategic experts.
It has to be realised, however, that not all aspects of the strategy of handling national security could be openly announced for the very reason of confidentiality of the information on the country's threat scenario which is at the base of responses required to be put in place under that strategy at any given point of time.
The security scenario has a large variable component in today's world and it is accepted that the life of long-range security assessments itself had generally been shortened.
There is open agreement on a number of initiatives that are to be taken to serve the ca...