About: India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) is the country’s premier intelligence agency. Established to satisfy the need for increased intelligence that was identified during the 1962 Sino-Indian Border War and during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, RAW was created in 1968 to handle India’s external intelligence affairs.
Objectives: RAW is responsible for collecting military, economic, scientific, and political intelligence through covert and overt operations. RAW is also charged with monitoring terrorist elements and smuggling rings that transport weapons and ammunition into India.
