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<ul><li>The <keyword id="6409838" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="national-security-guard">National Security Guard</keyword> of <keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="20" keywordseo="India">India</keyword>, responsible for dealing with terrorist activity, has upgraded the tools at its disposal. </li><li>Along with upgrading its firepower and <keyword id="32723" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Defence">defence</keyword> equipment, the ‘Black Cats’ will also have the world’s smallest drone with a camera at their disposal for covert operations. </li><li>Only 6 other countries around the world are equipped with this technology so far, making India the newest addition. </li></ul>Call them the National Security Guard (NSG) or the ‘Black Cats’, India’s elite commandos have <a href="https://nsg.gov.in/sites/default/files/Press%20Release%20of%2034th%20NSG%20Raising%20Day-2018.pdf">integrated new tech</a> into their war chest. The most significant <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/in-major-upgrade-of-national-security-guard-indias-elite-commandos-get-hi-tech-weapons-1933260">addition</a> is the Black Hornet Nano, the world’s smallest spy cam, that’s only being used by a select few countries around the world. That, along with the Kamikaze drone and upgrades to their firepower and defense capabilities, is meant to help the NSG address their primary objective of dealing with anti-terrorist activities in all its forms. While, the addition of the Black Hornet is an impressive upgrade, the commandos finally shifting from walkie-talkies to hands-free earpieces is a milestone as well. Not to mention, long overdue. At the 34th Raising Day on Wednesday, the Home Minister to the Government of India expressed how the challenges before the NSG are dynamic and there’s an urgent need to equip them with the latest technology and gadgets. The world’s smallest spy cam The Black Hornet Nano isn’t the newest gadget on the block, but its efficiency is continuously applauded. Measuring approximately 4 inches in length and weighing around 16 grams, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Capitalizing on its size, the drone can travel at speeds reaching nearly 35 km/hr according to NDTV and navigate treacherous terrain using its inbuilt GPS and autonomous flight functions. All while sending back a video stream to the pilot. The only catch is that, on a single charge, the drone can only fly for around 25 minutes and operators can navigate the drone from a maximum distance of 1.6 km. But, being compact comes at a price. Specifically, <a href="https://www.droningon.co/2017/06/01/flir-pd-100-40k-nano-reconnaissance-drone/">around</a> ₹3 million ($40,000) while other sources cite the price to be as high as ₹14.3 million ($195,000). Currently, the only countries that have this capability are the US, the UK, Germany, France, Australia and the Netherlands.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>In late August, Indian and Chinese troops clashed on their disputed border high in the Himalayas, another brawl in a summer of heightened tensions.</li><li>The latest clash killed one soldier and wounded another from <keyword id="3658" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="India">India</keyword>'s <keyword id="321996" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Special-Frontier-Force">Special Frontier Force</keyword>, a secretive unit made up largely of ethnic Tibetans, many of whom oppose <keyword id="1334" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="China">China</keyword>'s control of their home region.</li></ul>At the end of August, tensions between India and China flared with another <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/31/india-captures-chinese-camp-disputed-ladakh-violence-erupts/" target="_top">brawl</a> between their soldiers high in the Himalayas.The brawl around Pangong Tso lake in Ladakh, along the disputed border known as the Line of Actual Control, reportedly involved over 500 men and lasted about three hours.India claimed it was responding to a Chinese incursion and that an Indian special-operations battalion seized a Chinese camp in a stealth operation a few days later.<div type="image" title="India fighter jet Ladakh" height="1666" width="2500" msid="78038830" hostid="261"></div>This incident comes slightly more than two months after a <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1563892" target="_top">similar clash</a> in the same region killed 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese troops.No casualty figures have been released for the latest brawl, but one Indian commando was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-china-tibet/tibetan-soldiers-death-near-tense-india-china-border-sheds-light-on-covert-unit-idUSKBN25T2JN" target="_top">killed</a> and another wounded when they ran into a minefield.Those soldiers were part of the Special Frontier Force (SFF), an Indian special-operations unit composed almost entirely of ethnic Tibetans.The episode thrust the secretive unit into the spotlight. Now, almost six decades after its founding, it's fulfilling what many members and other Tibetans in India feel is its main purpose: to challenge China.<h2>Establishment 22</h2><div type="image" title="India soldiers troops Special Frontier Force" height="1406" width="2100" msid="78038834" hostid="261"></div>The SFF, units of which are known to Indian soldiers as Vikas battalions, was established during India and China's 1962 border war. Losing that war made India realize that it needed dedicated mountain troops capable of conducting reconnaissance and strike operations at high altitudes.The best candidates came from India's large Tibetan refugee community, many of whom fled to India with their leader, the Dalai Lama, after a failed <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rebellion-in-tibet" target="_top">u</a><a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rebellion-in-tibet" target="_top">prising</a> in <keyword id="6364076" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="tibet">Tibet</keyword> in 1959.The refugees were acclimated to the high altitudes and motivated to fight Chinese communist forces. Some were veterans of the uprising, and a few were previously <a href="https://www.historynet.com/cias-secret-war-in-tibet.htm" target="_top">trained</a> by the CIA in guerrilla warfare.The unit was created by India's domestic intelligence agency, the Intelligence Bureau, before being taken over by the Research and Analysis Wing, India's foreign intelligence agency.It was originally called "Establishment 22" before being renamed the SFF in 1967. The CIA assisted with training and equipment until the early 1970s.They were dedicated mountain troops and masters of patrolling and fighting in the unforgiving climate and altitudes of the Himalayas.<h2>A history of dedication and service</h2><div type="image" title="India army soldiers Special Frontier Force" height="1666" width="2500" msid="78038838" hostid="261"></div>The SFF was not created in time fight the Chinese in 1962, and although a central reason for its creation was to confront China, it was rarely put in a position to do so — possibly because the Indians worried its members, <a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3100153/rare-spotlight-indias-mysterious-special-frontier-force-amid" target="_top">passionate</a> about countering China, might escalate tense situations.But the SFF has served in battle numerous times. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, 3,000 SFF commandos were <a href="https://www.thedailystar.net/wide-angle/phantoms-the-hills-168325" target="_top">dropped</a> behind Pakistani lines in Bangladesh, capturing strong points and preventing Pakistani soldiers from retreating into Burma. Fifty SFF commandos were killed and 190 wounded.They fought against Sikh insurgents in <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/1984-operation-blue-star-amritsar-1251681-2018-06-06" target="_top">Operation Blue Star</a> and helped <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/operation-meghdoot-34-years-ago-how-india-won-siachen-5135429/" target="_top">secure</a> Indian control of the Siachen Glacier in 1984 and then fought in the Kargil War in 1999.SFF commandos also secretly assisted the CIA in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/04/13/cia-put-nuclear-spy-devices-in-himalayas/61cf72f2-dfdc-4586-a695-11a6d823a097/" target="_top">tra</a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/04/13/cia-put-nuclear-spy-devices-in-himalayas/61cf72f2-dfdc-4586-a695-11a6d823a097/" target="_top">cking</a> China's nuclear weapons program by <a href="https://www.wired.com/2013/04/cia-himalayan-spies/" target="_top">helping</a> install and maintain advanced monitoring devices along the Sino-Indian border.Gurdip Singh Uban, the son of the SFF's first commander and a veteran of the Indian military who fought with the SFF, <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/special-frontier-force-china-line-of-actual-control-lac-ladakh-jawaharlal-nehru/article32532182.ece" target="_top">recently described</a> them as "fearless" and said they "never, ever hesitate."<h2>A message to China</h2><div type="image" title="India army soldiers Special Frontier Force" height="1695" width="2500" msid="78038842" hostid="261"></div>The SFF reports directly to India's Cabinet secretariat and is not a part of the Indian military. Estimates put the unit's numbers between 3,000 to 5,000 troops.Indians and Nepalese fighters known as Gurkhas are now also in the SFF, but its identity is still distinctly Tibetan; the unit's insignia, for instance, is a Tibetan snow lion — the same kind found on the Tibetan flag.Because of their origin and mission, the unit has largely been kept secret. Indian officials asked the family of Tenzin Nyima, the 33-year veteran commando killed in the August clash, not to talk about his service.But recent events have given the unit renewed attention. Its members took the Chinese camp in late August, and <a href="https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/tibetans-give-warm-send-off-to-special-frontier-force-on-way-to-indo-china-border-136267" target="_top">video</a> has emerged of Tibetans in India giving warm send-offs to SFF soldiers heading to the border — part of a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/asia/india-china-troops-border.html" target="_top">massive buildup</a> of forces by both India and China.<div type="image" title="India Special Frontier Force soldier funeral Tibet" height="1666" width="2500" msid="78038845" hostid="261"></div>The new focus has led to hopes that the SFF, and the Tibetan community in India as a whole, will get the recognition and attention they deserve. It has also stirred the emotions of some Tibetans living in India, who see a chance to face their archenemy."Most of us Tibetans join the unit because this is our only chance to fight the Chinese," one SFF veteran recently <a href="https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3100153/rare-spotlight-indias-mysterious-special-frontier-force-amid" target="_top">told</a> the South China Morning Post.Those factors give their deployment more than military significance, melding a long-standing territorial dispute with much deeper ethnic and political tensions that the Chinese Communist Party has suppressed at home for decades."China's position is very clear," a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said earlier this month. "We firmly oppose any country providing convenience in any form for the 'Tibet independence' forces' separatist activities."

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When Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> appointed <keyword id="115253" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ajit-Doval">Ajit Doval</keyword> as India’s National Security Adviser, he was well-aware about Doval’s capabilities and glorious past record. 
 
Doval, who shapes India’s foreign policy and is considered the second most powerful man after Modi, is the man in-charge of talks with rival Pakistan. Doval also visits arms manufacturers to discuss strategic capabilities, and orchestrates the response to militant attacks. He everyday liaisons with India’s Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar, the nation's top diplomat. 
 
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-18/india-s-007-former-super-spy-is-shaping-modi-s-foreign-policy">Bloomberg</a>, in a report, said since Doval assumed the charge as National Security Adviser, he has supported a nationalist agenda while adopting a tougher line against hostile neighbours. That has growing economic ramifications as China funds a $45 billion trade corridor through Pakistan that bypasses India and as both China and India eye resource-rich neighbors in central Asia like Afghanistan. 
 
And why not? Doval, handpicked by Modi, has all the knowledge and has been on the field and tested hostile waters. 
 
As per <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-18/india-s-007-former-super-spy-is-shaping-modi-s-foreign-policy">Bloomberg</a>’s report, Doval spent seven years undercover in Pakistan, recruited rebels as informants in disputed Kashmir, and once disguised himself as a rickshaw driver to infiltrate a militant group inside India's holiest Sikh temple. 
 
After his appointment, Doval was sent to Afghanistan as special envoy and brought him on his first foreign trip to Bhutan. Doval is special representative in charge of talks with China over a disputed border as well. 
 
“He's known as an Indian James Bond - he has this larger than life persona. There are tales and stories and legends attached to him that are very unusual in a national security advisor," Sadanand Dhume, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, told Bloomberg. 
In 1988, a military operation had flushed Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple in Amritsar. 
 
Karan Kharb, a retired army officer who was one of the National Security Guard commandos involved, told Bloomberg that Doval posed as a rickshaw puller to gain entry to the temple. He convinced the militants holed up inside he was a Pakistani operative who'd come to help them in their goal of establishing an independent country called Khalistan. 
 
"Generally, in India, people are very particular, they're sticklers to the rules. Doval sees the spirit in the rule. That's where he's different. He's very innovative and an out-of-the-box thinker," said Kharb. 
 
However, despite all his accolades, Doval's influence with Modi has drawn criticism too. 
 AAP leader Ashutosh had once tweeted: "The country wants to know who is running foreign policy? A spy called Doval or diplomats?" when Modi flew to Lahore to meet Pakistan counterpart <keyword id="6576" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nawaz-Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</keyword> in a surprise visit. 
 "The best experts on how to deal with terrorism, how to think about diplomacy and foreign affairs - they are not being consulted. Doval's job is strategy, not tactics,” Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi has said when Home Minister <keyword id="6355121" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rajnath-Singh">Rajnath Singh</keyword> suffered a politically embarrassing trip to Pakistan in August that Doval pulled out of at the last minute. 
 
"Doval wields more influence than previous national security advisers in part because of his credibility and experience in intelligence and security matters," Sameer Patil, who served in the prime minister's national security council secretariat under the previous Congress government, told Bloomberg.

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