Editing Research and Analysis Wing (section)

==Objectives==
The present R&AW<ref name="inside_raw">{{Cite book | last1 = Raina | first1 = Asoka | title = Inside RAW: the story of India's secret service | year = 1981 | publisher = Vikas | location = New Delhi | isbn = 978-0-7069-1299-9 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0zYmAAAAMAAJ | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160502173655/https://books.google.com/books?id=0zYmAAAAMAAJ | archive-date = 2 May 2016 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> objectives include:

* Monitoring the political, military, economic and scientific developments in countries which have a direct bearing on India's national security and the formulation of its foreign policy.
* Moulding international public opinion and influence foreign governments.
* Covert Operations to safeguard India's national interests.
* Anti-terror operations and neutralising elements posing a threat to India.

In the past, following the [[Sino-Indian war]] of 1962 and due to India's volatile relations with Pakistan, R&AW's objectives had also consisted of the following:
* To watch the development of international communism and the schism between the two big communist nations, the [[Soviet Union]] and China. As with other countries, both these powers had direct access to the communist parties in India.
* To control and limit the supply of military hardware to Pakistan, from mostly European countries, America and more importantly from China.<ref name="FAsummary"/><ref name="Federation of American Scientists"/>