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“There are no victory parades, and no one would light a lamp for the unknown agents,”
― Vikram sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

“What it means for the most of us is that after having missed the Industrial Revolution if India misses the technological and information revolution, we should expect to be confined to dust and heap.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“The real goal of all intelligence agencies is to access denied information or that information which the opposition takes extra care to protect and conceal.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“More information means less ignorance and a greater chance of rational and better decisions and not those based on illusions, hope, preconceived notions or perceptions. The danger from so much data—there is no definition of what is optimum—is that there are chances of overanalysis or falling into a conspiracy theory trap.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“Complete intelligence is not always available in a perfect manner. Even incomplete intelligence, if assessed properly and promptly by experts and acted upon effectively, can make a difference”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“Intelligence is a team effort: within the organization, internally with other agencies and ministries, and externally with other countries’ organizations.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“Facts are not always what they appear to be but are often what they are perceived to be.”
― Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

“Since intelligence is a demand-driven activity, like a service industry, it makes sense that while it may not form policy, it nevertheless should be in close touch with policymakers and political leaders to provide policy inputs when required, or to reorient priorities so that the intelligence provided remains relevant.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“Quite often, an individual act of commitment and courage makes the difference between war and peace or victory and defeat.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“There are no victory parades, and no one would light a lamp for the unknown agents.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“Bhutto seemed to be preparing for a ‘1000-year war’ with India, even if his people had to eat grass to finance the quest for the Islamic Bomb”
― Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

“China and not Pakistan will remains the biggest threat to Indian security interests and prosperity.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“Oleg Kalugin, the KGB’s rising star in the First Directorate, claims in his book that a minister in Indira Gandhi’s cabinet offered to provide information to the KGB for $50,000. The KGB, however, felt there was no need to spend this money as they had enough intelligence from multiple well-placed sources. That minister, according to Kalugin, later became India’s prime minister.2”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“A displayed ability by a state to protect its interests and project its powers earns its respect, not pious statements or rhetoric.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“Monarchs, autocratic rulers and democracies have used informers and agents provocateurs for the security of their realms, to wage war and for their own protection against assassins.”
― Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

“Basic purpose of advance or current secret intelligence is to ensure that the government faces no surprises and the information gathered helps it make informed decisions or take counter-action.”
― Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

“Often, intelligence officers on assignments abroad from different countries might get along with each other than with their own colleagues.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“Intelligence activity defines the national interest laws much more sharply. There are no grey areas here. Intelligence wars are fought differently.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“In the twenty-first century, unfortunately, quite often policymakers and politicians judge intelligence agencies in comparison with what has appeared in the media.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“Intelligence is not a science, certainly not a natural science. It is an art or a craft, and as such it cannot be governed by the basic tenets of logic.”
― Vikram Sood, The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations Construct Narratives

“A government that has an intelligence system that ensures a surprise does not become a surprise will be successful in securing its people and the nation.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“A government that has intelligence system that ensures a surprise does not become a surprise will be successful in securing its people and the nation.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“hegemony”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage