ABSTRACT
Globalisation and international terror have altered the scope and meaning of intelligence collection and operations all over the world. The meaning of the word ‘security’ is now larger than ever before. While global powers with global interests, such as the US – with their resources to match – have ‘gone massive’ in their intelligence overhaul, with a disproportionately huge reliance on technical means of collection and in the privatisation of the means of both collection and analysis, countries such as India – although threatened in the neighbourhood with one hostile neighbour and another with global ambitions – have been slow and limited in how they have overhauled systems to combat new threats because of limited resources and interests.
