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  • Chinese Dragons-Quixotic Responses?

     8 November 2021 There are apparently in the realm of Strategic Thinkers a two and a half front for the PLA and her CMC masters- One each on the Himalayan and Taiwanese fronts as a land and water boundary, plus half a front that is literally half way across the ocean that bears India’s name Read more

  • COP26-Derailed by Deferment?

     4 November 2021 From almost the very start, the pull out of China from the high table for discussions on COP26 targets was like saying that there would be an examination with no compulsory attendance and whose results would have no bearing on the academic record! While the choice of Glasgow as the venue, where Read more

  • Beyond Immediacy- The Need For New SALT!

     28 October 2021 Boys with toys! This is the petty way to look at how the media is now grappling with the news of hypersonic glide weapon tests, the US recently confirmed that it has failed twice, the Chinese alluding to a success, one which General Mark Milley the US Chairman JCS, has termed “‘very Read more

  • Powell-Propelled by Doctrine!

    25 October 2021 The US lost a great military mind and most capable diplomat, who had personal credibility and standing that was unheralded for the offices he held on his long record of public service, whether as NSA, as Chairman JCS, as America’s Diplomat in Chief as Secretary of State, or even as a retired Read more

  • Putin the Pacifier!

    24 October 2021 When we discuss these times in the coming decades, there will be a case for how Russia was a missing piece in the plot to keep our global order in balance. How the great animosity of the West to the legacy state of the Soviets was quite unjustified and how a series Read more

  • #AUKUS: Beyond Partnerships and Platitudes-5

    Gaming The End Game!  16 October 2021 There is no strategist worth their salt who would not wish to delve into scenario making, trying to project current trends in military postures, economic measures and overall slants in Power Projection of CNP into what can be called the ‘Goals’. In the Western gambit that we have Read more

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