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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
2023 November 3rd Premise: The attendant avalanche of information that is coming from OSINT and official sources suggests the following:- Without going into who are the good guys and who the bad, we can just see how the period of consolidation of the Global South that has been midwifed by President Putin and to some […]
Contrasting Aspects of SMO and IDF Operations offer insight into the mind of the Higher Military Organisation of Kremlin and Kirya. 28 October 2023 Disclaimer: This writing is apologetic in so far as the collateral losses of civilian life and property that go either unnoticed or ignored by military and political leadership. The larger loss […]
22 October 2023 The US Navy gathered a flotilla led by Air Craft Carrier USS Gerald R Ford tasking it with keeping in check Israeli aggression even as POTUS landed in Isreal and openly asked that her decision makers not repeat the mistakes made by the US after 9/11. However outwardly the reason for the […]
6 October 2023 If any worthy mentioned that this global order which seemed settled for a bit would face upheavals in this form within 2 years of then Australian PM Morrison declaring a Climate of Strategic Uncertainty, then they were clearly Gods Of Tomorrow. Or they were the leadership of Azerbaijan. If there was any […]
How Nagorno Karabakh influences geopolitical fault lines in South Asia 4 October 2023 In what can only be described as a military manoeuvre war, the Republic of Azerbaijan has managed to obtain the cartographic relief it has sought for ages, that of the dissolution of autonomous status of Nagorno Karabakh and it’s absorption into its […]