Strengthen intelligence mechanism to prevent another Kargil-like situation: Experts

There is an urgent need to strengthen the existing intelligence mechanism to prevent another Kargil-like situation, defence experts averred during the Military Literature Festival here on Sunday.

Taking part in a discussion, "Lessons Learnt from the Kargil War and their Implementation", former defence secretary Shekhar Dutt said, "We need to strengthen the intelligence and surveillance at the central as well as state-level because no military operation would go successful without quick inputs."

All panelists, including Lt General JS Cheema (retd) and Air Marshal Nirdosh Tyagi (retd), called for developing more intelligence organisations to avoid surprise incidents like Kargil, a Punjab government release quoting them said.

They were speaking on the concluding day of the three-day festival here.

Taking part in the discussion, Dutt said to avoid a Kargil-like situation, the country had to develop common channels of intelligence so that actionable information could be provided to the ...