Espionage and Military Intelligence

Was following an Article . It mainly talks about spies and the gadgetry. For reasons unknown, whenever I read about the accomplishments of westeners, I tend to think what was lacking in us Indians then, that prevented us from attaining these accomplishments. Same applies to 'independence'. When America attained its independence sometime in the 18th century, we Indians were busy fighting amongst ourselves and unknowingly letting others take over us. America attained its independence not only by the means of war, but by intelligence and espionage. It was the American spies who foiled most of the British attempts of victory. Most of the success is attributed to intelligence. The same has been carried forward. Even though there have been minor pitfalls, even today CIA is ranked on top of the world's secret service organizations next to MOSSAD.
Its a matter of apathy that India, home to Kautilya, one of the greatest espionage and intelligence experts of all times, fell into the hands of foriegners. Speaking about Kautilya, he single handedly threw away the Nandas and established the Mauryan dynasty as the single largest kingdom in the country. But for his intelligence, Chandragupta Maurya would have never got back his kingdom. Never to forget the intelligence of Amathya Rakshasa. No we cannot blame the generations for not having picked up their knowledge. Kautilya put most of his thoughts and skills in the book 'Arthashasthra', supposedly the bible for political science. History should have a positive growth, but Indian history has shown a potentially negative growth. The country has been invaded by various rulers, starting from Alexander, but it was the Europeans, mainly the British who succeeded in ruling this country. They succeeded not because of their might, but because of their political intelligence. They saw the weakness in the Indian rulers and slowly devoured one after the other.
Had we Indians inherited the knowledge of Kautilya, Amathya Rakshasa and the like, probably we could have prevented the British, probably the first war of independence would have given us the true independence. That mistake has cost us so much that, even 50 years after our independence, our military abilities stands no where in comparison with the super powers. Indian intelligence agencies have no recognition on a global scale. We have not been able to resolve problems with our neighbours, and we are still a developing nation filled with corruption. In today's world of military intelligence and espionage India stands nowhere. The Indian intelligence agencies IB and RAW are probably unheard of.