“—–Explosions are still a viable tool of war, but implosions are the new defeat mechanisms” – General Raheel Sharief, former army chief of Pakistan at a seminar in Karachi, as quoted by The Dawn of December 5, 2014.
The recent Tariff war on India by the US is indicative of a more sinister and a deeper objective of the “Global Deep State” (GDS), which is a conglomerate of top businessmen, politicians, bureaucrats, intel officials and agencies. The current US president, may be unwittingly playing into their scheme of things because of his personal business interests. The primary objective is to checkmate India from becoming “Another China”.
It is the prerogative of India’s adversaries to make all sorts of accusations against India. Therefore, it is no surprise if some outsider tauntingly says that Indian economy was “dead”. But an Indian opposition leader testifying such a statement was an act of betrayal. Not only this, during Operation Sindoor, asking for the loss of Indian fighter aircrafts, was designed to put Indian armed forces in a bad light. It forgets the basic reality of a war that casualties do take place from both sides. But what matters is what is achieved. Such negative thoughts by our opposition leaders were a manna for the adversary’s propaganda narrative. And Pakistan takes potshots on India with such sound bytes of our leaders.
Some of the political leaders of the country might be deliberately or unknowingly playing into the hands of Global Deep State. Some of them surely know what was the meaning of a statement by a US businessman, George Soros, who openly claimed that he had earmarked $10 Billion to depose current central regime in India. He had, in the past, funded many such destabilising projects in India. They vary from Hindenburg Report on Gautam Adani or even Tool Kit Project. The flurry of Anti-India articles in the American Press speak volumes about it.
George Soros is known for having brought down the Bank of England. It seems that he does this with the blessings of the US Government. In January 2025, he was honoured with highest Civilian award, the “Presidential Medal of Freedom” by the outgoing President Joe Biden. What was this for? Was it for dethroning Sheikh Hasina Wajid of Bangla Desh?
The list also included Hillary Clinton. Therefore, the role of the US government and its intel agencies in Soros’s such known activities of destabilisation of non-complying governments worldwide, cannot be ruled out. May be, he was quietly funded by US Intel agencies. An article by Sharadha Pandey on June 06, 2025, in Op India claimed that Sam Pitroda, the chairman of Indian Overseas Congress and Congress scion Rahul Gandhi ‘s close aide, had defended this American billionaire and regime change enthusiast, George Soros.
One does not questions, here, the right of the opposition leaders to criticise the present Indian Government at the Centre. It is certain that after 11 years of rule by the same political party might, the party might have erred and committed mistakes. They ought to be pointed out and questioned, but in a dignified manner.
The recent Tariff war on India by the US is indicative of a more sinister and a deeper objective of the “Global Deep State” (GDS), which is a conglomerate of top businessmen, politicians, bureaucrats, intel officials and agencies
Criticism must be issue-based and not turn into a hatred for the head of the government. What is more, this hatred of one individual should not become hatred for the nation. Worse is when an opposition leader goes abroad and openly spews venom against India and the Indian Government, it becomes a weapon for the enemies of India. Allowing oneself to be weaponised by the enemies of India, is not only a disservice to India but it is an act of treason, too. National security is as much the responsibility of the opposition leaders as of the Government of India.
Salahuddin Chaudhary of Bangla Desh wrote in Organiser of April 24, 2025: “Israeli agency Mossad has uncovered a purported nexus involving known opposition leader of India(names omitted), global investor George Soros, and entities linked to the so-called ‘Deep State.’ According to reports, the trio allegedly leveraged the Hindenburg Research report — which had significant economic ramifications in India — as part of a broader strategy to destabilise the country’s economy and undermine national interests”. It is known that it was focussed against an Indian businessman, Gautam Adani, allegedly being close to the Indian Prime Minister, who was the indirect target.
Anti-India organisations and Indian opposition parties have drawn a conclusion that the easiest way to bring down the present Indian Government is by breaking-up the majority community – which is the synthesising force of India. Ironically, while Indian opposition parties have a short-term objective to come back to power, the enemies of India use such acts of opposition parties to disintegrate India.
In fact, issues like “North-South divide”; “Imposition of Hindi”, “Farmers Agitation” or even administrative reforms like “revocation of Article 370” or Citizenship Act are exploited, for the same purpose. And now false allegations of “Vote Chori” is being used to discredit constitutional authorities like the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC). It is to create unrest and chaos in India by deliberately reproving that recent state elections were rigged in favour of the ruling party.
Some of the political leaders of the country might be deliberately or unknowingly playing into the hands of Global Deep State. Some of them surely know what was the meaning of a statement by a US businessman, George Soros, who openly claimed that he had earmarked $10 Billion to depose current central regime in India
On the same hand, the Indian social structure is also targeted. A concerted effort was made to alienate “Dalits” from the majority community. It is alleged that “Dalits” were not Hindus. Then, came the icing on the cake, a couple of years back, when it was claimed in a Twitter campaign that Kshatriyas (Rajputs) were not Hindus. Further, a Buddhist monk had started the campaign that “Ram Janam Place” in Ayodhya was a Buddhist shrine. According to him, it was a “Brahminical” conspiracy to claim it as a “Lord Ram’s birth place”.
It would be interesting to note that British Indologist, John Keay in his book Into India, asserts that as late as the last decade of the 19th Century, Sikhs , Buddhists, Jains and Sanatan followers were considered as separate cults of Hinduism. They are all products of the sub-continent culture. In any case, Hinduism represents a geographical culture which has accommodated many an ethnic and temporal groups.
According to him, in his other book History of India, the word HINDU initially was a Geographical term, describing people living East of River Sindhu (River Indus). He insists that Hindu was a corruption of the word Sindhu by ancient Persians (Iran), who pronounced Sindhu as apostrophe “S”. Even geographical description of India was the corruption of the word Hindu by Greeks, who interacted for trade with ancient Persians.
A concerted effort, it seems, is on to divide the majority community, which was already divided into castes because of vote-bank politics. It is claimed by Government critics in opposition, that the current ruling party had risen to power on account of its linkage and lineage to the majority community. Strangely, garnering minority’s votes is secularism, but if one seeks majority community votes, it is communalism and undemocratic.
The opposition does not realise that it this is an age of information, bolstered by social media. People no more, wholesomely, can be swayed by fake slogans of caste, creed, and religion. Even amongst the Muslims of India, a voice of dissent has risen against it being treated as a vote-bank. On the other hand, the vote-bank politics has certainly awakened the so-called Hindus. The rise of the so-called Hindus is a reactive phenomenon. Its resurgence, therefore, was the result of negative politics pursued by dynastic parties.
Criticism must be issue-based and not turn into a hatred for the head of the government. What is more, this hatred of one individual should not become hatred for the nation. Worse is when an opposition leader goes abroad and openly spews venom against India and the Indian Government, it becomes a weapon for the enemies of India
Most of the Indian politicians know that unless majority is divided, the present government cannot be defeated in an electoral battle. And foreign agencies too, know this truth, that as long as the bulk of the majority community is united, India cannot be balkanised. So, different strategies are being adopted to divide the majority.
As of now, the youth of the majority community is being led on the wrong path. Their liberal religious affiliations and modern education, is being exploited to serve the purpose of protagonists of India’s disintegration. Take the case of “tool kit” incident and government claims of foreign attempts to destabilise India. One must take the government’s accusations seriously.
Some years back, there was a lot of hue and cry by some political parties on the arrest of a young girl, Disha Ravi, from Bengaluru by the Delhi Police. Along with her, there was another one picked up from Mumbai, Nikita Jacob, who was allegedly involved in supporting an anti-India organisation. It is very clear that self-seeking youth of metropolitan cities is more driven by personal advancement and material gains than emotional outcry of Patriotism. Youth of metropolitan cities particularly, consider themselves as “Global Citizens”, India is just a one big dot on the global map for them.
One must understand that such nibbling acts against the integrity of Hindustan have been deliberately planned to disintegrate it through “thousand cuts”. These acts may seem unconnected but their purpose is one: break up Hindustan. The book “Bear Trap – Through Thousand Cuts” by Brig Yousuf Mohammed of Pakistan, which I had quoted earlier, is all about arming of separate Taliban outfits and how the illegal supplies were managed by the CIA.
At one place, in the book, the author claims that ISI had trained some 80,000 Afghans in guerilla war against the Soviets. Later, they all converted into hard core Talibans of late Mullah Omar. Brig Yousuf, in this book, further talks of bleeding the adversary through “Thousand Cuts”. Thus, he created numerous splinter groups of Afghan militants, independent of each other, but under the central control of the ISI. The same ISI strategy of “Thousand Cuts” is operative in India, too. The Leftist cabal, also called perpetrators of “Wokeism Philosophy” are the latest entry to this “Vote Bank practitioners”.
Thus, India faces multi-pronged and multi-faceted attack on its very existence. External and internal foes have become very active in a coordinated manner. National security is the assessment of intended, demonstrable and executed threats to the national integrity and unity by external and internal foes. It is one big whole and it cannot be segmented.
A concerted effort, it seems, is on to divide the majority community, which was already divided into castes because of vote-bank politics. It is claimed by Government critics in opposition, that the current ruling party had risen to power on account of its linkage and lineage to the majority community. Strangely, garnering minority’s votes is secularism, but if one seeks majority community votes, it is communalism and undemocratic
Internal foes are separatists, insurgents and terrorists of all hue and cry. They need to be treated as “enemies” and not as “our Misguided Boys”. Unfortunately, “our misguided boys” concept leads to ineffective and half-cocked measures, to deal with internal threats. We, our courts, legal system included, fail to note that whoever picks up arms against India, is her enemy. This is the position of the Constitution of India. This brooks no non-sense approach. When AFSPA is imposed in a region or a state, the security forces must have a free hand. Appeasement and softness are the biggest enemy of internal security measures.
To sum up. there is an urgent need to evaluate factors militating against the national security of Hindustan. In doing so, India’s national security environment ought to be analysed three dimensionally, namely, international, regional, and internal, i.e. Sino-US rivalry in the region; Sino-Pak nexus and India’s Internal conflicts, aided and abetted from the outside.
Add to it, the latest “Hate and Fix India” movement by the present regime of the USA. It may seem a temporary phenomenon — but it has been a long-term attitude of USA, which has now come out in the open. These above three parameters define the national security canvass, on which the government must concentrate. It should be mandatory for the government to accord equal priorities to the all three dimensions.
All said and done, external foes cannot break up Hindustan by military offensive. But they can do so by creating an implosion from within. This is more serious and signs are omni-present in today’s Bharat. There is a paradigm shift in war machinery by nations to achieve their political objectives. An indirect approach is made to exploit inner weaknesses of one’s adversary by using frustrated and dissatisfied segments of the internal population. This is called “Sub-Conventional” conflict or what I have been calling WOM (War by Other Means).
In view of the above, India is likely to witness more of mass agitations like the Anti-CAA movement of 2020; Farmer’s agitation of 2021-22 or newly invented protests of “Vote Chori”. Besides terrorist acts of the type of Pahalgam 2025, may multiply at the behest of foreign powers, to destabilise India.
India is likely to face “Designer War” of the 21st Century, which might culminate into many “Operation Sindoors”. It would aim to exploit the internal vulnerabilities and weaknesses of India. These vulnerabilities are available in abundance from North East to J&K through Maoists dominated terrain of central India. Do not forget Punjab, UP, Bihar, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu, which can join their ranks. India has these definite signs of internal conflicts overshadowing the external threat.
India faces multi-pronged and multi-faceted attack on its very existence. External and internal foes have become very active in a coordinated manner. National security is the assessment of intended, demonstrable and executed threats to the national integrity and unity by external and internal foes. It is one big whole and it cannot be segmented
Therefore, India needs specialised forces to boost its internal security. It needs national Counter Insurgency (CI) Grid to counter present and future problems. In short, India needs a comprehensive Internal Security Plan, as an appendage of the external security and not being independent of it.
The dealing authority must be the Ministry of Defence (MoD) or a new National Security Ministry. All resources, such as CRPF, CISF, RR, RPF, SFF and SB, must be clubbed under it, even all intelligence organisations from NIA (National Investigation Agency) to Military Intelligence.
Another issue which needs to be considered is the freedom of action to be given to security forces to deal with militants and terrorists in the Counter Insurgency (CI) Grid. The problem of India is that its leaders do not understand the nuances of WOM. India continues to deal with terrorists and insurgents as a law-and-order problem in different parts of the country. AFSPA (Armed Forces Special Powers Act) enacted in 1958, keeping in mind the NAGA problem, has outlived its utility. Instead of diluting AFSPA, there is a need for comprehensive COZA-2025 (Combat Zone Act), redefining “Enemy” and “Internal Security”. There can be no leniency with those, who pick-up arms against the country. A clear-cut line must separate law and order problems and the internal security threats.
India must learn from Sri Lanka, as to how LTTE (Liberation Tiger of Tamil Elam) insurgency was curbed. There can be no mercy with nation’s enemies. The four point formula to tackle terrorism and militancy is summed up in the acronym – PILE, meaning, ‘Prevent, Isolate, Limit and Execute’.
Prevention, as the first step, demands certain measures to be adopted which seeks restrictions on citizenry and the media. Terrorists always have the initiative. The aim of Prevention is to seize this initiative from the terrorists. It is, therefore, utmost desirable that we identify targets picked up by the terrorists. These are basically of two kinds, namely, “soft” and “hard or strategic”.
All said and done, external foes cannot break up Hindustan by military offensive. But they can do so by creating an implosion from within. This is more serious and signs are omni-present in today’s Bharat. There is a paradigm shift in war machinery by nations to achieve their political objectives. An indirect approach is made to exploit inner weaknesses of one’s adversary by using frustrated and dissatisfied segments of the internal population
Prevention does not mean, a nation must become a security state with fortress kind of defensive system. Prevention intends to make the perpetrators of terror feel being haunted. Make them run for their lives. Strike them before they strike you. To do so, one needs to create an intelligence system to gauge each and every future move of the terrorist organisations. If need be “moles” must be created within terrorist organisations. Intelligence system should be such that flow of information must not only be smooth but also timely. There is, therefore, an immediate need for an anti-terror intelligence grid, region wise and zone wise. One fact must be understood, that is to amalgamate all intelligence organisations into one big whole, otherwise they often work at cross purposes.
To isolate terrorism, India has to identify the breeding ground and hotspot of terrorism. It is undoubtedly apparent that Pakistan is the mother, in whose womb it was born and the adult is now ruling roost from Iraq to Syria. It must be contained there, while other hotspots are kept subdued with more aggressive and active action by the respective governments. Time, energy, and resources employed after the terrorist acts are more expensive rather than the preventive actions.
The maxim goes: prevention is better than cure. It is so, because if the disease catches you, there could be many side-effects, which will otherwise tell upon your health. So is true of terrorism, too. Prevention is often a better weapon in counter insurgency and its first casualty is the unbridled freedom allowed in the name of democracy. Freedom is not free; it comes with lots of “Do’s” and “Don’ts”. And these “Do’s” and “Don’ts” are the “security premium” of much sought after “Freedom”
To isolate terrorism, India has to identify the breeding ground and hotspot of terrorism. It is undoubtedly apparent that Pakistan is the mother, in whose womb it was born and the adult is now ruling roost from Iraq to Syria. It must be contained there, while other hotspots are kept subdued with more aggressive and active action by the respective governments. Time, energy, and resources employed after the terrorist acts are more expensive rather than the preventive actions
It implies that citizens must accept certain restrictions on their freedom, which might cause inconvenience to them. They must learn to live with it because such are the times and such is the threat the world over. There is no point crying hoarse after the incident and making noise that stringent measures were being taken to punish the culprits.
To conclude, it should be emphasised that the concern of National Security was not to rake up a false alarm. It is the job cut-out for the present government because of regional, international, and internal environments. It must take a proper stock of all the three threats to work out a proper strategy to ensure India’s security. The government cannot afford to neglect any one area. It may be noted that it is not democracy, liberty, secularism, and freedom of expression in danger but the integrity of the nation which is under attack. It is time to stem the rot, now!
-An ex-NDA and Wellington Staff College graduate, Col Rajinder Singh is a renowned author and security analyst. He has authored four books, two individually and two in collaboration. His best-selling books are Kashmir – A Different Perspective and The ULFA Insurgency. The views expressed are of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Raksha Anirveda
