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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
India in Dilemma or Deliberation? 08 October 2021 No country has invested more in identifying China as a Global Power as India has. Not just because of her civilisational linkages with China, or cultural ties that are perhaps the most ancient and most celebrated, one that invested in every corner of each other’s lands and […]