Yassar

“but I went and Mani Dixit was appreciative. We chatted with his daughter Abha, who was researching on Sindh, and then I had a few minutes one-on-one with Dubey.”
― A.S. Dulat, The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace

“are going to set the place on fire. Bomb it. Essentially they rely so much on technology. It’s only a facilitator, ultimately the assessment is made by human beings. Like the Indian nuclear tests, I don’t know whether it was by design. But in any case their intelligence failed.”
― A.S. Dulat, The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace

“When it was published, I think during my period, someone came and said look at what’s written. What should we do? Should we get a hold of the man, court martial him, issue a rebuttal? I said, there must be 20 people who have read it but once we do something, 200 people will read it.”
― A.S. Dulat, The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace

“the strongest US capabilities are clustered in the center of the spectrum, from economic through military, space, and cyber capability. Thus, any Chinese attempt to escalate in this part of the spectrum would involve symmetrical confrontation and possible conflict. Outside that zone of confrontation, in the categories of social, legal, and infrastructure activity, China would be better placed to compete, given weaker American capabilities and the fact that US leaders might not consider these part of the conflict spectrum,”
― David Kilcullen, The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West