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Ukraine- NATO’s Frontline fumble!

20 December 2021 If there was a lesson in how the West lost the war of keeping the peace after winning the battle defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, it has been on relentless play for close to three decades now. If the Cold War denouement was a rare opportunity for America to […]

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Nations or Notions- Lessons from Dhaka 16 December 1971

15 December 2021 There is always so much to deliberate about the vivisection of India as a composite commons into a partition of Islamic and ‘secular’ Hindu majority state by the British when they offered her Independence. There are volumes written about the aftermath of Partition, the deadly dance of death that visited the subcontinent […]

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Putin’s Double Thrust- The Indian Cart

6 December 21 It is not something that one could expect from many leaders, but Putin as President has always been exceptional. This is what he does and where he makes his daring do such a normal feat of his presidency so far. Akin to riding bare horse, bare chested, or what have you, Putin’s […]

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From A Prism of Premises- Taiwan’s Identity by Circumstances

3 December 2021 Taiwan is in the news for some time now, yet, for stranger tides that we are in, it is actually the beneficiary of much happening, which is not of its making. If there is something called ‘Universal Conspiracy’ which Paulo Coelho wrote about in his ‘Alchemist’, then it is working now to […]

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South China Sea- The Tuna Block Lessons

1 December 2021 For those who read this, the familiarity with 9 dash lines, the ruling by Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2016 against the 9 dash line claims of PRC /CPC China, and the background of Chinese attempts to build islands out of shallow shoals and reefs to boost her territorial claims in these […]

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America China Covid19 Pandemic Geopolitical Strategy

Indian Options in Contested Charters- A Pacifist Pragmatism?

22 November 21 The world is unfortunately vastly more complex than when it was 70 years ago. The only evidence we have is the effort of some historians and analysts who have laid out how the West viewed South Asia, that was India before the colonials arrived, which they successfully dismembered into multiple countries instead […]

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Summitry Asymmetry Part 2- The Game of Narratives

19 November 2021 What most people forget is that globally, history is what is a victor’s version. If the Nazi regime had not lost to the Allies, the entire eugenic construct of racial purity and superiority would have gained a different sales pitch, one not withstanding Jesse Owens and Lutz Long who demonstrated the elementary […]

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The Summitry Asymmetry- Biden Xi Summit

18 November 2021 We have witnessed now for quite sometime, an era where post Cold War, there were Groups, G7, 8, 20, 77 etc. We have seen new bodies form since 1950s, such as ASEAN, SAARC, SCO, CIS, African Union, NAM, some that have now fallen clearly by the wayside, some that have lost their […]

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America China Climate & Environmental Challenges Covid19 Pandemic Geopolitical Strategy

Australia- The Slippery Slope of Strategic Identity!

10 November 2021 For a continent size island, located in Indo Pacific region, Australia has always played a second fiddle even after decades when Great Britain whose former colony she once was, proved to be a lesser power, after a brief skirmish over Falklands (1980s) with Argentina which the then British Government used to reclaim […]

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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 […]

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