Vikram SoodVikram Sood, a career intelligence officer for thirty-one years
who retired in March 2003 after heading the R&AW, is currently
an adviser at the Observer Research Foundation, an independent
public-policy think tank based in New Delhi. e writes regularly
on security, foreign relations and strategic issues in journals and
newspapers and has contributed chapters related to security, China,
intelligence and India's neighbourhood to books published in the last
few years. He has also authored The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief's Insights into Espionage (2018) and Great Power Games: From Western Decline to Eastern Ascent (2025). Read More Read Less