Hyderabad, December 19, 2005 (UNI)

Former Air Marshal and Director of Centre for Advanced Strategic Studies, Pune, Dr S Kulkarni suggested that revolution in security studies and military affairs was a must to achieve comprehensive security for the nation.

Delivering the inaugural address yesterday at the two-day national seminar ''New Dimensions of Comprehensive Security'', organised on the occasion of 17th National Congress for Defence Studies (NCDS) here, he said this would enable to harmonise micro level security at national level with micro level security at individual level.

By this country could achieve comprehensive security for the nation'', he pointed out.

Dr Kulkarni lauded Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for setting up a new task force at the Centre in this regard.

He said the definition of security has changed over the five decades of independent India. ''Father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi in the early stages of Independence stated that expenditure on armed and police forces was immoral.'' Dr Kulkarni said in the present scenario security is associated with development.