NATIONAL SECURITY

By Sanjay Ram

ABOUT

National security is one of the important aspects in which the government of a country usually focuses on. The budget allocated to it has a major percentage in their GDP. Though countries are trying to maintain good relationships, promoting peace around the world, and trying to avoid war and clashes, the Budget on Defense has been increased year after year.

The USA spends more budget on defense combined 10 countries in the G20!

DEFENSE DEPARTMENTS

There are many Departments in Defense but the most known would be Army, Air force, and Navy. These Departments have agencies that report to the national level. Police Doesn’t come under defense as they report to the state, So in a Federal type of democracy State government has powers and the rights of the Police.

Defense departments have been assigned in such a way that certain operations are allotted to them.

Army- The Ground or land forces consist of Corps, Divisions, Brigade, Battalion.

The field army is responsible for controlling borders situated inland, for international breach. 

The other way to classify an army would be by its formation. A particular army Is distinguished by the number of people and by their respective regiment.

Navy- The maritime force has a principle focus designated to control the coast, surrounding the border of their country. The base of the navy is a port that is specialized for operations.

Navy is classified into:

Bluewater- It operates far from the coastal waters of their nation. These ships primarily track the moments in the water for long periods of time and have logistical support.

Brown Water- It operates the coastal periphery along inland waterways, where containers with large vessels coming from other countries by trading or from exporting are checked, these vessels cannot readily enter.

Green Water- A localized force that operates the waters inland and provides support to the Bluewater navy.

Air force- Air force comes under the national military branch, it is the aerial force of the army and navy which controls the sky of a country. The air force is divided in the same manner as the military. Basically, it has 3 types of fighters:

Fighter, Attacker, and Bomber which is directly reported to regiments and squadrons.

After the security of a nation, some security to VIP is given. People who are provided with this security have risks which involve death threats. Local police and government protect these ‘important ‘ individual depending upon the scale of threat.

There are 5 types of security covers which are given to the individual that are important to the national interest, Like the President, Prime minister, Vice president, Chief justice, and so on. These are SPG, Z+, Z, X, and Y+.

Y+ Controversy

The Y+ security cover is given only to 15 people in our nation, like The Chief justice of our country but recently this cover was given to a Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut without any threat or proof of threat! This proves that people who are close to the government can get security from the money of Taxpayers!

CONCLUSION

National security involves the Defense of our nation which is from protecting the borders of our country to protect VIP’s and VVIP’s, all this money comes from the taxpayers! Approximately 5-10 percent of our GDP is given to defense while Education and Health combined is about 8 percent. Even developed countries are spending so much money on defense. Still, in our country, we face problem in the borders and faults in the Police is quite evident due to a bad system in which Police are puppets of Politicians and the main focus is to protect people influenced with Government while in our country for namesake everyone is said to be equal.