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..The cold war between nations, conducted by their spy agencies, is continuous, however. There is no let-up. There are no uniforms, or counter-measures that force terrorists to opt for soft targets. Spies and their networks live 24x7 lies at great risk to themselves. They are a last line of defense. If a Kargil happens, then it is ultimately attributed to intelligence failure. Terrorism is seen as a slippage through an invisible net put up by the agencies. War is either pursued or averted mainly due to intelligence efforts. Many intelligence agencies have been called the Deep State. CIA, KGB. Its a term denoting an establishment which runs the affairs of state behind the scenes. The very nomenclature indicates that it is invisible yet influential. In my vocabulary, its a psy-war term. Its also hypocrisy. The United States has a Deep State and it comprises big money, the military-industrial complex, and the Jewish lobby. The Deep State in America can even scuttle presidential policy, as it did to President Barak Obamas efforts to end the wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East. The CIA, State Department, Pentagon, and the military-industrial complex make the political leadership helpless. This is not something Pakistan says, various Americans including some former CIA heads say yes, theres no coordination between various organizations, so we do whatever we deem fit.
Deep State, incidentally, is also making life miserable for President Donald Trump, preventing him from improving relations with Russia or fulfilling his election promises to disengage from foreign military ventures. I believe the German BND works methodically, seriously. Germans anyway are serious people. But their product is sometimes not up to the mark. BND is a victim of their own desire to be perfect. Everything has to be done flawlessly, tied up to the last detail.............. That is what one has learnt over time. Youre not going to wait forever for everything to trickle in, and then say weve got everything now, lets come up with a plan. Someone has to say, this is how it seems to be developing, so lets do this. Thats the job of a person who is supposed to carry out strategic assessment, strategic analysis, and strategic requirements. That was lacking in the BND. After German reunification, someone said the economy turned out worse than what we expected.
Where were you, BND? A department that was supposed to assess this had a chap, and I believe his response was: we had intelligence coming that we were filtering, analyzing, and sifting through computer, but it was so much that we had just reached the 1950s and 60s, not the 90s, when the collapse took place. You dont expect this from any intelligence agency, perhaps saturated with data, 30 years behind on your analysis. Like this, other agencies have been flat wrong. Later they cook up a rationale. If ultimately the agency cannot provide you strategic or tactical warning in time, then what good is this huge apparatus? (General Asad Durrani. The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace. A.S. Dulat, Asad Durrani and Aditya Sinha).
M ost discussions on electronic media and intellectual forums in Europe, and Britain about the effects of globalization on national security focus on violent threats. Notwithstanding the plethora of books, journals and research papers on national and international security, there is an iota research work on the issue of interconnectedness. The interconnectedness of violent threats and their mounting effects pose a grave danger to the aptitude of states to professionally secure their territorial integrity. Technological evolution and aggrandized interlinkage of our world in general, and information technology in particular, has affected people and society in different ways. Daily life of every man and woman has become influenced by these challenges.
The twenty first century appeared with different class of National Security threats. After the first decade, world leaders, research scholars, journalists, politicians, and security experts grasped that the world has become the most dangerous place. The avoidance of war was the primary objective of superpowers, but with the end of the Cold War, emergence of Takfiri Jihadism, extremism, and terrorism prompted many unmatched challenges. Home-grown extremism and radicalization continues to expose a significant threat to the National Security of the EU and Britain. The risks from state-based threats have both grown and diversified. The unmethodical and impulsive use of a military-grade nerve agent on British soil is the worse unlawful act of bioterrorists.
Security experts hoped that Britains new National Security Capability Review (NSCR) will play a constructive and positive role in dealing with bio-related diseases, terrorism and cyber warfare, but the exponentially growing number of terror-related incidents in the country put into question its credibility and competency. Britains National Security Strategy has also failed to keep momentum with emerging threats, and didnt adequately respond to the exponentially growing foreign sponsored espionage and terrorist networks across the country.
In 2017, British government published National Security Capability Review (NSCR) as a quick refresh of capabilities, but authorities in one of government committees said it does not do justice to the volatile security environment. In its 04 June 2018 version, the UK Counter Terrorism Strategy spotlights many new things including the proliferation of jihadism and criminal culture, but growing power of jihadist and terror networks across the country, generated negative perceptions about its effectiveness and professional demonstration. In National Security Strategy, Strategic Defense and Security Review, and Cyber Security Strategy, several new amendments have been generated to make effective law enforcement and intelligence infrastructure-dealing with the issue of national security.
In his speech, Home Secretary emphasized partnership on local, national, and international level. At national level, CONTEST ingrained Home Office to lead development and coordination of a cross-government Science and Technology Strategy for counterterrorism. Home Secretary Sajid Javid said: As Home Secretary my priority will always be to keep our country safe. The threat from terrorism is one of the starkest we face and it is clear there has been a step change. The biggest threat is from Islamist terrorism particularly from Daesh, but extreme right-wing terrorism is also an increasing threat. Both exploit grievances, distort the truth, and undermine the values that hold us together.
