NSA Ajit Doval says civil society can be misused to hurt nation's interest

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said that the 'new frontiers of war is the civil society which can be manipulated to hurt a nation’s interests'.

Doval made the remarks while addressing the passing out parade of the 73rd batch of IPS probationers at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy (SVP NPA) in Hyderabad on Friday.

Doval stated that ‘people are the most important, and the new frontiers of war, what you call the fourth-generation warfare, is the civil society.’

He further added, ‘Wars have ceased to become an effective instrument for achieving political or military objectives. They are too expensive or unaffordable and, at the same time, there is uncertainty about their outcome. “But it is the civil society that can be subverted, subsumed, divided, manipulated to hurt the interests of a nation. You are there to see they stand fully protected,”

Doval was the chief guest at the Dikshant Parade which is the culmination of the 46-week long phase-1 basic course training.

National Security Advisor, congratulated the 132 officer trainees of the IPS batch and 17 foreign police officers from Maldives, Bhutan and Nepal, and said “You are for India and India is for you. Every other identity gets subsumed to this Indian identity,”

He asked the new batch of officers to not only think of reforms to avoid repeating mistakes of the past but also be transformative to look at future challenges and find solutions in advance.

Doval further explained, ‘Quintessence of democracy does not lie in the ballot box. It lies in the laws which are made by the people who are elected through these ballot boxes. You are the ones who are the enforcers of the law… Laws are only as good as they are executed and implemented and the service that people can get out of it and the success of democracy is in the enforcement of the laws.’

He stated, people cannot feel safe and secure where law enforcers are weak, corrupt, and partisan. 'No nation can be built where the rule of law has failed.'

He reminded them that their responsibility includes not only the safety and security of 130 crore human beings but also the 32 lakh square kilometres of land area across the country. He wanted them to be trained and prepared for border management as well as challenges of highly specialised investigations in agencies such as the NIA or CBI.

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