Editor,
During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covertly armed the ill-equipped Mujahideen with the Stinger missile, a weapon that turned the tide of battle. In the following years, the agency tasked itself with locating and buying the remaining missiles under Operation MIAS (Missing in Action Stingers).
‘Starlink Devices Allegedly Seized by Security Agencies During Raids in Manipur, Elon Musk Rejects Claim’ The Wire, dated 18 December, 2024 the porous borders in the Northeast India shared with China, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan is more than 60 per cent (Ministry of Home Affairs reported at the Times of India, dated November 10, 2022) indicated the level of threat which foreign agencies take part in their grander scheme to destabilise trade and commerce even sparking religious ideologies.
The magnitude of drug smuggling along these routes with proximity to the Golden Triangle, the India Act East Policy if be a success story is just a matter of time, exuding confidence Union Home minister Amit Shah while addressing the 72nd plenary of the North Eastern Council (NEC) said that with an end in the insurgency, the modus operandi of the policing system is set for a change. What nature of transition to a force still stuck with the colonial past?
National security is not a matter of joke it is a constant evolution in understanding the dynamics of warfare through History, Geography, Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, with the dominance of 4GW (generation warfare) combined with cyber kinetics, artificial intelligence, autonomous drones, curating policies and analysis from think-tanks to premier defence organisations the security parameters of the country has to be weighed in with greater accountability.
In an emerging new security environment and the challenges, Mark Galeotti a British historian and expert on transnational crime book ‘The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War’ gives a clearer picture towards the rules of statecraft, which is rapidly transforming and why the faster we learn the more advantageous our position will be.
Christopher Gatphoh,
Laitkor Rngi, Shillong-10
