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  • General Winter & Military Strategy

    28 September 2020 We as students of military history are aware of how the formidable French under the all conquering Napoleon Bonaparte lost to the Tsarist Russians in their campaign due to ‘General Winter’. We are also aware that in the World War II, the battles in Eastern Theatre of German Wehrmacht were some of Read more

  • #Covid19 Corona Chronicles: Reason & Republicans

    25 September 2020 I am not going to lay down all those places where President Trump has misled American voters and citizens about the Corona Virus. Nor is this the place to serialise and recapitulate these positions that Republican senators and other RW voices in media and elsewhere have made, which today contributes to the Read more

  • Chinese merchantmen or man o’war?: Flagging The Advent of Strategic Uncertainty

    22 September 2020 There is a old saying about revealing your cards. It is why we have the term- poker face. So in what way is this move of China to talk on one hand about ‘Fortified Tibet’ as if it were defending and to also show clips where a merchant ship capable of carrying Read more

  • Ginsburg Vacancy- How to proof a system?

    22 September 2020 We needed to go back to 2016, when Senator Mitch McConnell led the Republicans to a partisan block of the SCOTUS nomination by President Obama for a good 14 months when the last SCOTUS vacancy came from the death of a sitting judge- Justice Scalia. That time was good as any for Read more

  • Framed by Narrative- Palming off our Farms

    20 September 2020 Those who are now agitating, even the SAD which resigned from ministerial presence in the NDA government, are doing too little too late. Even the INCs agitational politics is being distorted by clever scheme where a former Spokesperson like Sanjay Jha is trying to portray the Farm bills as a form of Read more

  • Ironies & Iron Clad- Image & Imagination in India

    19 September 2020 Addressing a conference on security via video conferencing, Mr Ajit Doval made a stunning disclosure of a 500% spike in Financial Frauds due to the Pandemic and the government response of prolonged Lock Down and strict policing action on ground that happened due to Indians showing greater dependence on digital payment platforms. Read more

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