As much as 80 per cent of the overall intelligence gathered by various agencies comes from open sources. It's no longer dependent on signals, field agents, and informants.
Not recruiting from civilian and scientific talent pools risks a ‘failure of imagination’, hindering India’s ability to pre-empt previously unanticipated dangers.
For all the talk of cyber-espionage by China or Russia, the Five Eyes are the largest intelligence-gathering organisation in the world, with the capability to harvest all global communications.
Sometimes, we end up embroidering the truth as we overthink and overanalyse a fastidious lady’s personal wardrobe preferences for significant occasions.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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