13 December 2025 Much has been made about China’s ‘not so’ peaceful rise, however, if one goes by the manner in which UK and USA became the powers they were, China’s rise is in utter contrast a testimony to pacifism. China’s military actions were not adventurism in the period of its new birth, circa AD1949 […]
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11 December 2025 One never knew that a quarter of a century could be this kind of topsy-turvy of what we assumed growing up as ‘normal’. At a geopolitical level, much will be made about this, as historians will review this as a part of a larger pattern of collapse of Empires. To think of […]
15 August 2025 It is ironic how the V Day for East ( symbolising the ceremonial surrender of Japan at the end of WW2) would be chosen as Indian Day of Independence by the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in South East Asia, who was also the last Viceroy of India, Earl Lord Mountbatten […]
3 August 2025 Shortly the world will go through the mindless commemoration of 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August. Humans will connect with such a passage of time, by remembering that a 1000 full moons have borne witness in this period. And the Gaza Holocaust is going through its final […]
28 June 2025 The first list must be made of PM Benjamin Netanyahu who has managed to stave off a possible judicial unseating on corruption charges so far by using ‘Emergency’ declared repeatedly for better part of last two years as Israel has launched one war after another in the bargain. Of course, no one […]
4 June 2025 If ever there is a Pyrrhic victory as can be, for us in modern times, it is this Dark Sunday the first of June which could well be the point of no return in Europe’s War. In possibly the closest ever to supporting President Putin’s arguments to cement the Russian military intervention […]
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OP SINDOOR- After Math
30 May 2025 In what can be classed as the first effective use of air power in a no war no peace scenario, India’s recently concluded Op Sindhoor, ended as it began, abruptly and inconclusively. The reasons are that we as ordinary public and discerning analysts, cannot quite frame the operational references under which the […]
27 May 2025 A month has passed and much of the Genocide in Gaza and the SMO in Ukraine has remained the same, with ‘talks’ being midwifed by the Trump Presidency that increasingly look like mere theatrics and not capable of any alteration of ground situation. The kinetics as folks now call incendiary weaponry being […]
15 April 2025 So far as the tariffs declared by President Trump reached a ‘pause phase’ quickly announced for the next 90 days, the American domestic markets limped back after being shinnied. Next came the information that the tariffs imposed on China would stay and would operate at almost one and half times values of […]
23 February 2025 In modern era post the arrival of combustion, a navy has sailed close to the waters of a country which steadfastly identifies itself with its colonial anachronism- Australia. The Chinese PLAN send a triad of warships ( too small to be a flotilla even) that hooked around the Australian Eastern Coast and […]
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