Internal Security
GS Paper 3
Syllabus
Linkages between development and spread of extremism.
Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal
security.
Challenges to internal security through communication networks, role of media
and social networking sites in internal security challenges, basics of cyber
security; money laundering and its prevention.
Security challenges and their management in border areas - linkages of
organized crime with terrorism.
Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate.
What we will discuss
Left Wing Border Organized
Introduction Insurgency Terrorism Cybersecurity Miscellaneous
Extremism Management Crime
NorthEast
Kashmir
Punjab
2023
National
Security
Major Threats to
Internal National
Security Security
threats
Internal
and
External
Security
National Security
National security is the measurable state of the
capability of a nation to overcome the
multidimensional threats to the apparent well-
being of its people and its survival as a nation-state
at any given time, by balancing all instruments of
state policy through governance
National Security is a state or condition where a
nation’s most cherished values and beliefs, its
way of life, its institutions of governance and its
unity, welfare, and well-being as a Nation and
people are permanently protected and
continuously enhanced
National Security extends to ?
Physical and Economic
Territorial relations and
Integrity trade
Institutions,Values, Welfare of the
way of life people
THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY
Internal eg. lonewolf attacks naxalism.
External eg. terrorism, war
Internally aided External eg. local terrorists
joining ISIS
Externally aided Internal eg.China supported
militancy in Northeast
Why maintain Internal Security
Maintenance of public order and Rule of
Law Cultural cohesiveness and continuity
National sovereignity
Socio-political stability
Territorial integrity
Moral and spiritual consensus
Economic security
preserve ideals of the Constitution
Energy security
India’s rise to claim its rightful place
Environment Security
in the international order
MAJOR INTERNAL SECURITY THREATS
Terrorism
Left-wing extremism
Insurgency
Communal divide, religious fundamentalism
Organized crimes
Cybercrime
Illegal immigration
Coastal security
Caste and ethnic tensions
NATIONAL SECURITY DOCTRINE
A national security doctrine is a set of codified
principles and guidelines that a government uses to
protect its national security.
It typically includes a description of the country's
security environment, the threats it faces, and the steps
it will take to address those threats.
A national security doctrine helps the statesmen
identify and prioritize that country’s geopolitical
interests.
India does not have any such ‘doctrine’ (Except the
Army which has one drafted in 2004)
