摘要：History is replete with examples of nations and organisations largely attributing their security failures to lack of adequate, hard and timely intelligence. Whenever strategic surprise or security related lapses occur, accusations of intelligence failures are the most convenient fall-out, at times rightly, but more often than not, wrongly as a cover-up for other failings. Both Kargil and the recent Mumbai mayhem were essentially systemic shortcomings and it is grossly unfair to brand them exclusively as intelligence failures. Conversely, only rarely is credit given to intelligence for any strategic or tactical successes. For obvious reasons, details of intelligence successes must remain shrouded in secrecy. Practitioners of the craft of intelligence must remain the silent warriors as there is no place for drum-beating in the business of Intelligence.
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