National Security And Intelligence Management A New Paradigm  (English, Vappala Balachandran)

National Security and Intelligence Management – A New Paradigm, by Vappala Balachandran, is a collection of the author’s lectures and other published works on several facets of national security, police, intelligence, terrorism and foreign issues, during the last 15 years.

Summary of the Book

National Security and Intelligence Management – A New Paradigm offers a clinical analysis of the flaws in our current security system, policing and intelligence collection. Based on the author’s vast experience in the government service for 36 years, this book attempts to study various security and intelligence systems. While many other countries have transformed their security, intelligence and policing methods with changing times, India has regrettably trailed far behind. There have been no valuable improvements either in intelligence collection practices or in policing since Independence, except for the addition of numbers. The author explains how our intelligence system has remained almost the same as we inherited it after the Second World War. Our policing system exhibits the same approach as we did in the year 1861, when the first Police Act was codified. This book offers many such insights into the issues and attempts for feasible solutions.

About Vappala Balachandran

Vappala Balachandran was associated with the Maharashtra Police for 17 years. He was formerly a special secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, with 19 years of experience. He led the Indian interagency groups for annual dialogue with the United States agencies on terrorism in 1993 and 1994. He was also a member of the 2 man high Level Committee, appointed by the Maharashtra government to investigate the police response to the 2008 Mumbai 26/11 tragedy. Vappala is a regular columnist on international security, associated with Sunday Guardian.