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 […]
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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 […]
India Canada Spat over Khalistani terror 23 September 2023 This is being written with a clear idea that there will be more twists and turns before this bilateral spat between India and Canada gets ironed out into a definitive narrative with clear takeaways. However, at the outset, this much is clear that what Russian Guru […]
15 September 2023 If we were to coin a new term, let us call this the Ides of September…The air is adrift with overworked rumour mills. An American veteran Colonel McGregor claims on his YouTube and X handles that Ukrainian military minds are weighing the options of an overthrow of the Kyiv regime of President […]
India’s moment of reckoning in High Table Diplomacy 11 September 2023 The Indian stamp was evident in the adoption of the G20 resolution, which was a triumph brought about by the BRICS plus, led by predecessor president G20 Indonesia and successor president G20 Brazil, with South Africa as present BRICS host all aiding India sherpa […]