The Fourth Fundamental:
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National Security Doctrine for Global Reach

If a market-oriented economy that fosters self-reliance in individuals and protects the weak through a safety net is ideal for renaissance, an effective national security doctrine in which the goal is to defend the assets of the nation and to achieve for India a polar position in the international power structure, is best suited for the country and
conducive for our national renaissance. The national security of a nation is however a composite of the GDP, defence capability, effective and innovative population, technological capacity, national health, and environmental stability.

India has the capacity to be a great power, with a large geographical continent size, location strategically placed, and a huge, talented population with the world’s third largest scientific and engineering manpower. But does the Indian nation have the collective ‘Will’ to exercise power in order to realize India’s potential to its fullest capacity? Unfortunately, this Will has been sorely lacking over the last six decades of Independence. This is because of our identity crisis.

For ending this crisis, Indians with one mind must acknowledge that our civilization rests on a Hindu foundation, and that India is a nation of Hindus, those whose ancestors were Hindus, and those other minorities who accept Hindu culture, such as the Parsis. Hence India may be called Hindustan.

Throughout history, the great kings in ancient Hindustan were conscious of the innate greatness of the land, and thus they exercised power commensurate with the size of the country. The Cholas in South India became great naval powers, and spread India’s influence to Indonesia, Kampuchea and Vietnam. In more recent time, Shivaji controlled the Arabian Sea, while Maharaja Ranjit Singh extended Indian influence and control over Afghanistan. There was a distinctive character of this influence: India’s established links that were also civilizational, religious and cultural.

At the commencement of the new millennium of the 10 largest economies in terms of size measured by GDP in PPP rates, the USA is the largest economy, the next largest economy China, the third largest economy Japan, with India as the fourth.

to be continued......