Pole Position China? 05 October 2021 There are a spate of articles across western media that have focussed largely on China and her rise for close to a decade now. While largely these were written admiring the rapid and unprecedented growth of CCP China, most well researched pieces never lost sight of how the CCP […]
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‘Horizon of The Rising Sun’ 28 September 2021 It is not possible to write about Japan, without a reference to its history as a modern power, one that unfortunately carries the baggage of ‘excesses’ in occupied areas including Manchuria, Korea and China, even though, in India, Japanese power was welcomed then, as a Asiatic Power, […]
26 September 2021 The storm clouds had been gathering for quite some time now, starting with how Libya was handled and how the US handling of Syria was criticised by even closest allies. For some time now, American power was evidently distracted and disoriented, or if you were from the other side, diluted and decrepit, […]
18 September 2021 In many ways, this signals what one can call the seminal moment of our #ClimateOfStrategicUncertainty. This call to unite the forces of the AngloSaxony, is an outcome of centuries of investments and explorations by the AngloSaxon that came about and brought forth what we can acknowledge as the modern industrial age and […]
09 September 2021 Today is two days shy of two decades after 9/11, when the USA’s judicial system has revealed that it is as good as a third world tin pot dictatorship in so far as trying those under law who have been captured in the aftermath of what is arguably the worst terror attack […]
03 September 2021 We have grown up hearing all work and no play makes Jack & Jill dull. ( The old phrase has been reworked to accommodate modern gender sensibilities, mind you!) So when you find that your country’s leading Tech export is from a company called Tencent and a game called PUBG, one famously […]
02 September 2021 The Taliban have not been the greatest turncoats, in fact, there is sufficient evidence that the Haqqani faction and the Taliban are actually siamese twins, if not one and the same person. However, the way Western players from US to UK are now trying to create a margin for error, moving out […]
25 August 2021 What the entire spectrum of Western media is agog with is what they ride high on- humanitarian crises, that has been set upon by the current situation in Afghanistan. The early reports of executions, arrests, public defacing using ink, flogging etc that are now coming to the fore are one part of […]
18 August 2021 The way many American veterans are arguing about the Biden Administration, it would seem that they were arguing for continued presence in perpetuity of the US mission to keep Afghanistan from the Taliban. What few strategic analysts can now grasp in clarity, amidst the chaotic scenes from Kabul is how orderly the […]
(India must follow his lead…) 16 August 2021 It was with a lot of eeriness that Indians and viewers every where watched the fall of Kabul on the very day India commemorated her 75th Anniversary of Independence, with Mr Modi delivering another speech high on octane and optics, as he promised to his countrymen and […]