Vappala Balachandran, National Security and Intelligence Management

National Security and Intelligence Management: A New Paradigm
~ Vappala Balachandran

ISBN: 978-81-88569-50-2
Hardback; pp 344; 6" x 9"
Rs 895/-

While several other countries have reformed their security, intelligence and policing apparatus, India has unfortunately lagged behind. There have been no worthwhile reforms either in intelligence collection methodology or in policing since our Independence, except adding numbers. This is the essential reason for our inability in meeting the formidable challenges of the 21st Century where security, intelligence and policing have become much more complicated with traditional and non-traditional security issues overwhelming us. This collection of articles deals with this problem and attempts to offer some suggestions to remedy our outdated system.

V. Balachandran, a former special secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, had worked in Maharashtra Police for 17 years and 19 years in Cabinet Secretariat. In 1993 & 1994 he led the Indian interagency groups for annual dialogue with US agencies on terrorism. He was a member of the 2 man "High Level Committee" appointed by Government of Maharashtra to enquire into the police response on the Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks in 2008. He writes a regular column on internal security issues in Sunday Guardian, a New Delhi Sunday paper.