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  • Hybrid Cold War:Shadow boxing Global South

    11 January 2024 The headlines are quite misleading, editorials are even more so. The narrative is now more clear on social media than in any other media, so much so that the virtual presence which is largely unverifiable has been weaponised by software giant India into what can be preliminarily dubbed as ‘troll diplomacy’. Indian… Read more

  • 2023:The Year of the Human

    31 December 2023 It is very easy to sign off with a note of optimism in usual times. However, the previous days that club to become this 2023 have been any thing but usual. In 2022, no one thought that Ukraine would continue to be on the boiler, but now we face the opening up… Read more

  • State of Play: The Gulf between Answers and Ansar Allah

    22 December 2023 The American Secretary of Defence General Lloyd Austin launched Operation Prosperity Guardian. It is most unusual for the Pentagon to create this kind of ‘special purpose’ in an already ongoing deployment in the Persian Gulf-Eastern Mediterranean region, one that straddles the present eye of the storm, engulfing the Middle East- Israel. The… Read more

  • State of Play-SinoUS Rhythm

    9 December 2023 Disclaimer: This is a fictionalised version of global affairs and real countries or persons mentioned here are for purposes of narrative understanding and not to be construed as factual portrayal. The Emperor sighed as the lights dimmed around him in Forbidden City, whose Denizens had worked toward quelling the unrest in his… Read more

  • Quantum of Entanglement- The West stares at Ukraine and Middle East with uncertainties

    26 November 2023 The treatise of statecraft must have an essential element of power projection judged by the ability of the player to ‘keep the peace’. As much as militaries are instruments to wage war, a true military prowess would be the ability to ensure peace and war only at a time, place and for… Read more

  • Gaza: A War by Gazillion Causes

    16 November 2023 In the weeks following the 7 October 2023 raids by Hamas into Israel which included heavy rocketry and teams of Hamas converging on military units, installations and kibbutz of settlers along the Gaza, what has emerged clearly is how uniquely unsettling this war is. The only clarity so far is that Ukraine… Read more

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