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`Review of security should be a continuous process'

Special Correspondent

Handling of issue on long-term perspective suggested

TIRUPATI: Gen. K.V. Krishna Rao (Retd.), former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday opined that the review of national security must be a perpetual and continuous process instead of being addressed on a piecemeal basis and only when there was either a war or a threat to internal security.

It is a matter of utmost importance and should be dealt on a long-term perspective and handled with care and the attention it deserved, he said delivering a lecture at SV University here on "National security."

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He described India's spectacular victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war as a record of sorts and wanted the same level of competence and capabilities to be maintained without letting any `politics' creep into the armed forces. This was what had happened during the Chinese aggression when India had to face defeat, the retired General said.

The former J&K Governor claimed that India was now capable enough to take on the enemies operating both within and from outside the country and said that if India had lost all its wars in the olden days, it was because of the factors like weak leadership, inadequate military capabilities, technological backwardness and poor administration.

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