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GLOSSARY
National Security Policy

National Security Policy is formulated by viewing the national security objectives and
the components of national power in the domestic and global environment both
prevailing and predicted. It provides the policy guidelines development of strategies in
the exercise of national power.

NationalSecurity Strategy (NSS)

NSS is creating and orchestrating the instruments of national power in support
of National Security Policy objectives. The NSS provides the essence for further
development of the Joint Military Strategy, with constituent Land, Maritime and Air
Strategies underpinned by the Land, Maritime and Air Doctrines.

National Strategy

National Strategy is the plan for employment of various tools and instruments of
national power in accordance with the national security policy, to achieve the desired
national security objectives in support of national interests.

National values
The values which evolve from a nation’s, history and culture. Democratic Socialist
Republic of Sri Lanka recognises freedom, equality, justice and fundamental Human
Rights as core national values based on the constitution.

Naval diplomacy

The use of naval force in support of diplomacy to support, persuade, deter or compel.

Naval Infantry
The Naval Infantry constitutes the land fighting component to conduct combat
operations on land.

Naval Strategy
A naval strategy deals mainly with the development and employment of naval forces.
It is the planning and conducts of war at sea, the naval equivalent of military strategy
on land.

Navy Planning

A comprehensive process that facilitates commanders and staffs at all levels to make
informed decisions, solve multifaceted problems, and ultimately achieve assigned
missions. The process facilitate the commander envisages an end state as well as the

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