India prides itself as having a history of skilled intelligence going back to antiquity. But what is this? Once the founder-leader of RAW exited the scene, the standards of RAW seem to have fallen. I am inferring this from the number of visible successes and failures of Indian intelligence.
During the Kao era, there was imagination and creativity. We saw number of enthralling episodes like:
But now we only see predictability, repetition of earlier tactics and strategies and of course glaring intelligence failures. For example:
The problem affecting Punjab’s youth (NO, it’s not Khalistan terrorism. I am talking about something else, just think what really undermined Punjab) went virtually undetected for atleast a decade.
Were the successes in 1970s just a bubble? Was Kao one extraordinary exceptional Indian and general average Indians cannot match him?
Look I have made a comparison. What happened when Kao was there and what happened in Punjab in the decade of 2000s?
During the Kao era, there was imagination and creativity. We saw number of enthralling episodes like:
- Mole in the Yahya Khan office
- Operation Kahuta
- Ravindra Kaushik
- Baluchistan insurgency
But now we only see predictability, repetition of earlier tactics and strategies and of course glaring intelligence failures. For example:
The problem affecting Punjab’s youth (NO, it’s not Khalistan terrorism. I am talking about something else, just think what really undermined Punjab) went virtually undetected for atleast a decade.
Were the successes in 1970s just a bubble? Was Kao one extraordinary exceptional Indian and general average Indians cannot match him?
Look I have made a comparison. What happened when Kao was there and what happened in Punjab in the decade of 2000s?