Kargil Review Committee

[1][2][3] Over a hundred senior military, civil service and intelligence officials, politicians, including former prime ministers, diplomats and journalists were interviewed by the committee over a period of five months.

The Committee found numerous flaws on multiple level of intelligence collection, operational strategies and procedural sharing of data.

[7][8] As per the KRC's recommendations, a Group of Ministers (GoM) and several task forces were set up to do a complete review of the Indian security system.

This became the first review of its kind in independent India's history to be made public, although in the interests of national security, the government initially redacted several parts.

They noted that the national security system in the country had seen very little changes since the 52-year-old framework outlined by Hastings Ismay and recommended by Louis Mountbatten.

[9] India tried major defence reforms following the Sino-Indian War in 1962, but these did not address national security in a holistic way.

[13] The report's scope was to review the events leading up to the Pakistani aggression in the Kargil District of Ladakh in Jammu & Kashmir; and to recommend such measures as are considered necessary to safeguard national security against such armed intrusions.Over a hundred senior military, civil service and intelligence officials, politicians, including former prime ministers, diplomats and journalists were interviewed.

The Kargil Review Committee found R&AW's human intelligence to be weak,[7] but Chapter 14 also praises the interception of telephone conversations of Pervez Musharraf in China.

The KRC report also acknowledges the work of the Aviation Research Centre of R&AW, which produced aerial intelligence after the intrusion's detection.

Brajesh Mishra, the National Security Advisor, was also assigned as a special guest to the meetings of the GoM and the Cabinet Secretariat provided help to the group.