Former Indian intelligence official Vappala Balachandran writes about the long road of betrayal of the ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚPalestinians that began with an agreement in 1919 and continues ဣto this day.
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How much do we🌳 miss those 'Peaceniks' or Special Envoys who used to strive to bring peace between warring parties, even short-lived peace. Why are such people not re-emerging? Has global conflict resolution diplomacy collapℱsed?
BY Vappala Balachandran 18 Novembe🌞r 2023 🉐
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While Israel was clearly the victor in the Yom Kippur War, the attack on the country came as a surprise that called for accountability, indicating the strength of their dem⭕ocracy. Prime Minister Golda Meir had to resign while Defence Intelligence Chief General Eliyahu Zeria was dismissed.
BY Vappala Balachandran ܫ 16 Sep🤡tember 2023
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Surprisingly, while the US intelligence community co꧅uld predict the Chinese nuclear programme with some accuracy, it totally failed to detect India’s 1974 Pokhran-1 and 1998 Pokhran-2 nuclear tests. Senator Richard Shelby had described the 1998 test as a colossal US intelligence failure.
BY Vappala Balachandran 𝄹 ♓26 August 2023
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As Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer hits the screens, this article delves into ꦓhow Soviet intelligence could succeed in penetrating into the US atomic bomb project, by taking advantage of its role as an American ally in the Second World W♕ar.
BY Vappala Balachandran ꩲ 23 July 2023
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This book presents a wealth of detail, digging ꦬdeep into the murky crypts of the RAW and ISI. In the final analysis, it’s inauthentic and unconvincing.
BY Vappala Balachandran ꦰ 🅷 17 September 2021
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China is using the same language...The 1962 attack was to insult Nehru, while the 2020 attack is to discredit Narendra Modi, writes former bureaucrat Vappa🎃la Balachandran
BY Vappala Balachandran ♊ 20 June 2020
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A compreꦗhensive and crisply-written biography of R.N. Kao mirrors the warm individual, his formꦕative assignments and the fine webs he’d later weave
BY Vappala Balachandran 🌱 29 January 2020
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