Indian Navy is scripting a new saga of Bharat's rise in the high seas

"Organised force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within." American naval officer and historian Alfred Thayer Mahan had written these words in the late nineteenth century in his famous book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, which examined the role of American and European naval power in shaping world history. The maintenance of a credible naval power indeed leads a country to prosper, as its people can focus on economic activities due to the resultant peace. Although Mahan's book was…