Strength does matter and strength of a nation is the most impactful defence and deterrent, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said while stating that one needs to be possessed with strength to be relevant and to secure proper global order. Army Chief General Manoj Pande noted that not only is the Cold War peace dividend “dwindling”, the world seems to be fracturing in myriad ways while terming India a ‘bright spot’.
They were addressing on Friday the inaugural two-day ‘Chanakya Defence Dialogue’ jointly organised by the Army and the Centre for Land Warfare Studies.
“Peace is not an option. It is the only way. Its disruption leads to human misery and global challenges. There is need to seek peace at all costs — through ideation, advocacy, outreach, persuasion and dialogue — as also through strength, the later one being of extreme importance,” Mr. Dhankhar said. “In such a scenario the wisdom of such a world view is reinforced by the worrying turn of global events in recent times — more specifically, the expanding arc of conflict and the failure of deterrence, first in Ukraine and now in West Asia. It is worrisome that globalisation and economic interdependencies are failing to preclude conflict.”
