Former Indian intelligence official Vappala Balachandran writes about the long road of betrayal of the Palestinians that began with an agreement in 1919 and continues to this day.
How much do we miss those 'Peaceniks' or Special Envoys who used to strive to bring peace between warring parties, even short-lived peace. Why are such people not re-emerging? Has global conflict resolution diplomacy collapsed?
While Israel was clearly the victor in the Yom Kippur War, the attack on the country came as a surprise that called for accountability, indicating the strength of their democracy. Prime Minister Golda Meir had to resign while Defence Intelligence Chief General Eliyahu Zeria was dismissed.
Surprisingly, while the US intelligence community could predict the Chinese nuclear programme with some accuracy, it totally failed to detect India’s 1974 Pokhran-1 and 1998 Pokhran-2 nuclear tests. Senator Richard Shelby had described the 1998 test as a colossal US intelligence failure.
As Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer hits the screens, this article delves into how Soviet intelligence could succeed in penetrating into the US atomic bomb project, by taking advantage of its role as an American ally in the Second World War.
This book presents a wealth of detail, digging deep into the murky crypts of the RAW and ISI. In the final analysis, it’s inauthentic and unconvincing.
China is using the same language...The 1962 attack was to insult Nehru, while the 2020 attack is to discredit Narendra Modi, writes former bureaucrat Vappala Balachandran
A comprehensive and crisply-written biography of R.N. Kao mirrors the warm individual, his formative assignments and the fine webs he’d later weave
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