India's Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises: Spying for South Block

ISBN-13: 9781032282947 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Opis

This book examines India’s foreign intelligence culture and strategic surprises in the 20th century.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: India’s Foreign Intelligence and Strategic Surprises  1. Contextualising Intelligence Culture and Strategic Surprises  Part II: The Evolution of India’s Intelligence Culture  2. Kautilya’s Discourse on Secret Intelligence in the Arthashastra  3. From the Kautilyan State to the Colonial State: Transmogrification of the Ideas and Operations of Intelligence  4. The Birth of Post-Colonial Indian Intelligence Culture  Part III: Case Studies of India’s Wars  5. The Intelligence Bureau and the 1962 War: Between Mao’s Deception and Nehru’s Wishful Thinking  6. Indian Intelligence and the 1971 Indo-Pak War: The Epic of a Successful Detection and Counter-Surprise  7. Surprise on the Kargil Hilltops: Prognostication of the Irrational  Part IV: Indian Intelligence Culture in Perspective  8. Indian Intelligence Culture: An Articulation  9. Culture of Ad-hocism: Moving Beyond the Orthodox-Revisionist Dichotomy  Epilogue: Bring Back the Kautilyan State

O autorze

Dheeraj Paramesha Chaya is Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics and IR, Manipal Academy of Higher Education [MAHE], India. He has a PhD in Intelligence Studies from Leicester University, UK.