9 August 2023 Like how the American Establishment used the term ‘Star Wars’ to herald a competition of space based weaponry that escalated the Arms Race and triggered the Perestroika and Glasnost transformation of the Soviet Union and brought about the dissolution of the ‘Evil Empire’ shortly thereafter, decades later, it appears that the State […]
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29 July 23 Warning: To treat this as fictional or factual, the risk is with the reader. Sometime this month, a centurion centenarian stepped into the arc lights, flanked by the most powerful men of the Middle Kingdom, marking perhaps a milestone once more, five decades later, after he was first conveyed as ‘baggage’ aboard […]
25 July 2023 While a existing dimension of Cold War that lasted between Moscow and Washington for close to five decades after the famous detente at Yalta during the WWII is being mapped as prismatic review of the conflict in Ukraine, unknown or even unwittingly, two Asiatic neighbours- India and China are being drawn into […]
12 July 2023 In what can be called a cross roads, NATO finds herself once more as an alliance seeking relevance in the modern post Cold War Epoch, when the global commons have just emerged from a debilitating pandemic and are seeking equity and economic cooperation to rebuild themselves and their populations. Global Poverty had […]
24 June 2023 “The hype will always be far beyond the happening, much like hubris tends to curtail human adaptation, hype tends to extend beyond the ground reality…” Think of a partnership of two of the largest democracies in the World today, both Constitutional Democracies, with their respective colonial backgrounds of the British Empire in […]
9 June 2023 Since the first week of June involves the Normandy beach landing commemorations, the narrative symphony of western media was full throttle on how the Ukrainians were now going to launch their much awaited Spring Offensive, and how as some commentators averred the Ukrainian efforts could lead to end of President Putin himself […]
29 May 2023 China was staring at a Thucydides Trap apparently, with the USA reenergising her Asia Pacific presence and alliances, including actively cultivating partnership through Quad and bilaterally with India, who being China’s next door neighbour and gate way to the Indian Ocean, should have been the Canada to China in Continental Asia (CONAS) […]
28 May 2023 From what has transpired over the last fortnight, this much is clear that Ukraine appears not to be really sanguine about a conventional counter offensive that has been in the works and talks of the Western capitals that support Kyiv. Indirect evidence suggests that Ukraine’s senior military leader, Commander in Chief General […]
10 May 2023 The first ever visit by a leading Pakistani Official took place when Benazir’s son and chosen heir, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited India as part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meet that was held in Goa last week. This was a unique setting, coming on the heels of a […]
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#Ukraine: Hybrid Mode?
5 May 2023 This is a European war with First World War characteristics, happening in an era of what we now recognise in Revolution in Military Affairs as full spectrum warfare and christen as Hybrid Warfare. For a post Colonial Global Commons, this is exactly how the war in Europe dubbed as WWI looked like. […]
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