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The Fundamental Principles of Covert Military Action: Lessons from India’s 1971 Experience (2024)
Report
Paramesha Chaya, D. (2024). The Fundamental Principles of Covert Military Action: Lessons from India’s 1971 Experience. New Delhi: Observer Research Foundation

The success of the Indian covert actions in 1971 that led to the liberation of Bangladesh has a legendary place in India’s security consciousness. This paper retells the story of India’s covert actions in East Pakistan between January and December 19... Read More about The Fundamental Principles of Covert Military Action: Lessons from India’s 1971 Experience.

India-Israel Cooperation in Spy Satellites: Materialism to Idealism (2024)
Journal Article
Krishnan, V., & Paramesha, D. (2024). India-Israel Cooperation in Spy Satellites: Materialism to Idealism. Strategic Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2024.2357516

This article argues that India-Israel cooperation in space-based imagery originated under a realist logic but has been developing under an increasingly strong value-based commitment in countering terrorism. In this regard, the relationship is somewha... Read More about India-Israel Cooperation in Spy Satellites: Materialism to Idealism.

The Sino-Indian War and the Evolution of Wireless Monitoring Capabilities in the Indian Intelligence Bureau (1959-1968) (2024)
Journal Article
Paramesha, D. (online). The Sino-Indian War and the Evolution of Wireless Monitoring Capabilities in the Indian Intelligence Bureau (1959-1968). Journal of Intelligence History, https://doi.org/10.1080/16161262.2024.2311479

This article is the first academic work exploring the evolution of wireless monitoring capabilities (COMINT) in India’s Intelligence Bureau (IB) between 1959 and 1968. Until 1968, the IB was India’s foreign intelligence agency and experienced its lar... Read More about The Sino-Indian War and the Evolution of Wireless Monitoring Capabilities in the Indian Intelligence Bureau (1959-1968).

India's intelligence culture and strategic surprises: Spying for south block (2022)
Book
Chaya, D. P. (2022). India's intelligence culture and strategic surprises: Spying for south block. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003296195

The work looks at whether there is a distinct way in which India 'thinks about' and 'does' intelligence, and, by extension, whether this affects the prospects of it being surprised. Drawing on a combination of archival data, secondary source informat... Read More about India's intelligence culture and strategic surprises: Spying for south block.

Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–64 (2022)
Journal Article
Chaya, D. P. (2022). Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–64. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 45(4), 621-636. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2022.2044695

Scholars of Intelligence Studies have extensively debated the contours of an ideal relationship between intelligence services and policy making, in which agencies can maintain analytical objectivity while having a policy impact. However, this debate... Read More about Proximity or Sycophancy? The Relationship between Intelligence and Policy in the Nehruvian Era, 1947–64.

India’s PSYWAR Against Islamic Terrorism: A Trident Strategy (2018)
Journal Article
Dheeraj, P. C. (2020). India’s PSYWAR Against Islamic Terrorism: A Trident Strategy. Terrorism and Political Violence, 32(3), 558-581. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2017.1388792

Islamic terrorism in India has posed a formidable threat to India’s national security. A result of inimical state policies from India’s north-western borders as well as home-grown radicalisation, it has developed into a threat that demands a multi-fa... Read More about India’s PSYWAR Against Islamic Terrorism: A Trident Strategy.