About the Book: Ultimate Goal : A Former RandAW Chief Deconstructs How Nations
Construct Narratives
In The Ultimate Goal, Vikram Sood, former chief of Indias external intelligence
agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RandAW), explains the narrative and how
a countrys ability to construct, sustain and control narratives, at home and
abroad, enhances its strength and position. Intelligence agencies invariably
play a critical role in this, an often-indispensable tool of statecraft.
A narrative may not necessarily be based on truth, but it does need to be
plausible, have a meaning and create a desired perception. During most of the
twentieth century, intelligence agencies helped shape narratives favourable to
their