ITANAGAR, Nov 2: Governor of Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, Brig. (Dr.) B.D. Mishra (Retd.) delivered a lecture on ‘Civil Military Relations’ at the National Defence College, New Delhi today. National Defence College is the defence services training institute and highest seat of strategic learning for officers of the Defence Service and the Civil Services.
The Governor said that today the Civil-Military relations are transforming into Civil Military synergy in all configurations, viz., on land, in air, at sea and in the space. He said that time has now come for India to upgrade and graduate civil-military relations into civil-military fusion.
The Governor said that the ‘Civil-Military Relations’ encompass all Civil Military interfaces, consultations, joint decisions, war games, civic actions and aid to civil power. While recapitulating the history of Civil Military Relations, he highlighted its importance of good civil military relations at national level, strategic level and tactical level. He underscored that the optimization of Civil-Military Relations should be an integral part of the national defence policy. At National level it should encompass all components which come into play in making; the Armed Forces ‘Atma Nirbhar’ and making our country a ‘Shreshtha Bharat’.
The Governor, while advising on ‘Way Forward’ said that India is a democratic nation, where civil power is supreme. Military cannot legislate for the civil authorities but what military leadership can certainly do is to enhance its competence, demonstrated uprightness and unflinching nationalism which will make the military man on all military matters an indispensable consultant for the government of the day. This is one of the best ways to achieve good civil-military relations, he said. 

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