ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book reviews the development of India’s defence policy from a passive to a deterrence posture. It provides the empirical evidence of how India as a nation state had failed to have a systems approach for evolving a robust security strategy during the period 1947–1979. The neglect of the Radhakrishnan Committee on Education in 1948 ensured that the stakeholders did not participate in the vital area of national security planning. The book provides a bird’s eye view of the evolving security strategy of India by placing it within the ambit of global involvement and India’s position in world affairs in the 21st century. There is hardly any aspect related to the behaviour of nation states, the status of the international alliance system amongst nation states related to commerce or security that has been left out.
