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Since time immemorial, the art and science of Intelligence remains an irreplaceable and a central constituent of statecraft. Unquestionably, it is also the first line of defence for a nation and if prudently utilised, a veritable force-multiplier. Among most nations, whenever a security catastrophe, a cataclysmic event or even a major geopolitical setback occurs, opprobrium is heaped on its intelligence set-ups even though such failures could be attributable, among other factors, to systemic shortcomings, faulty analyses, sheer negligence and/or leadership failures within the nation. Though lapses in intelligence acquisition and analyses may result in glaring security shortfalls and grave national embarrassment, on the other hand intelligence successes, normally, cannot be publicly acknowledged as “the practitioners of the art of intelligence have to be silent warriors for there is no place for drum-beating in the business of Intelligence.”
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