India needs to develop its own strategic vocabulary and doctrines to truly seek “the broadest possible degree of strategic autonomy” said National Security Advisor, Mr Shiv Shankar Menon, adding that reading Kautilya’s ‘Arthashastra’ will help us “by broadening our vision on issues of strategy”.
Mr Menon was speaking at the Workshop on Kautilya, organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) under its Project on Indigenous Historical Knowledge-I on October 18, 2012.