11 February 2024 The Israeli bombing and sniping in Gaza Strip is unprecedented act of war against an entire population. Of course, before the current Post Cold War Epoch, the global experience has been the use of state violence against ‘non state actors’, which did involve bombing from the air too. In this list of […]
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10 February 2024 War by other means, where the spoken word becomes mightier than the sword, is how decisions taken elsewhere in board rooms, in houses of representatives of the people, in warrens of bureaucratic maze, can upend or consolidate what is transpiring on the battlefields. The Tucker Carlson interview with President Putin being click […]
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29 January 2024 The events have a way of hurtling past our ability to appreciate their essence, their shape shifting nature and their transformation of the world in which we think we are in, is such that we appear caught in a warp of our own, unable to square up what events have served us […]
18 January 2024 There is at play what we call the forces of unintended consequences, those small probables and pieces that when set upon, provoke a domino effect creating a series of ever rising ripples that finally create a tsunami. We don’t quite know when it all started, we can hazard a few educated guesses […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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