New Delhi: At the 'VIMARSH' event on Operation Sindoor and its aftermath at Vivekanand International Foundation, former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday delivered a clear-eyed assessment of how national security interacts with democratic governance, emphasising that military power remains a direct extension of political will.
Invoking Carl von Clausewitz's famous axiom that war is the continuation of politics by other means, General Chauhan stated that a nation's political interests are supreme. In this framework, the armed forces operate as just one of several national instruments available to safeguard those interests.
