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If there is one takeaway from the chapters that follow, it is that the military model pioneered by US forces in the 1991 Gulf War—the high-tech, high-precision, high-cost suite of networked systems that won the Gulf War so quickly and ...more
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A.S. Dulat
“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

A.S. Dulat
“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.”
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“One of them went to my in-laws’ house in Model Town, Lahore, to ask about me. No one was at home, so they went and asked the neighbours’ chowkidar, ‘Yeh kaise log hain?’ That chap said, ‘Yeh acchhe log hain.’ I got the green signal and I always say that my neighbours’ chowkidar provided the certificate that the intelligence agency sought.”
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A.S. Dulat
“had a bet with me. I said, no, Mrs Gandhi is coming back, I haven’t been in India for four years but I can tell you this. They often back the wrong horse. KGB is tougher, but they have”
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A.S. Dulat
“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.”
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