14 September 2022 You could sense this as a deja vu kind of feel, like in 2013 the Chinese withdrew from Gorgra Hotsprings PP15 under a mutual agreement with the Indian Army and the Indian PM flies to a Summit. It shows on one hand how Indian Diplomacy has been consistent in how it extracted […]
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#Ukraine: Learning & Leaning
8 September 2022 The ongoing war in Europe is something that few would have foreseen in the aftermath of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. One doubts if even Western military planners imagined ever that they would witness right next door, a conventional war involving artillery, armour, infantry, supported by air and naval forces that […]
18 August 2022 Aphorism of Premises: ” Past is not a necessary insight to the Future, However Precedence can be a platform for Predictive Performance as Preference.” There is much speculation about how a World War would be fought in the 21st Century, since the collapse of the Soviet Union triggered the end of the […]
10 August 2022 In our world’s history the most important days would always be the 6th and 9th of August which mark the Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans. The way the bombs were dropped revealed a very Western design to create a new level of human destructive capacity as part of […]
2 August 2022 It is not every day that the boldest strategic sweepstakes is undertaken by a Constitutional figure head in a Democracy. Ms Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the US House of Representatives. She is third in line as POTUS, immediately after the Vice President Ms Kamala Harris is the Constitutional scheme of […]
28 July 2022 Few would have thought that a war in a corner of European fringe, the State of Ukraine borne after the dissolution USSR as a Post Cold War spoil, a bone of contention between the NATO and the Russian regime under President Putin for last two decades, would create a series of economic […]
20 July 2022 When it all began in February no one could quite foresee how this war would entangle and how its possible disentanglement could be arranged by stake holders. As of this day, the picture that emerges is that of a slow burn warfare of attrition where the Ukrainians are unable to hold contested […]
13 July 2022 It would be a travesty to view recent happenings globally as the best outcome of a form of government which dates to great antiquity. Both India and Greece can lay claim to origins of this form of ‘self rule’, which existed alongside the more prevalent form of accepting an ‘overlordship’. Suzerain versus […]
9 July 2022 A Japanese assassination of a national leader is virtually a ‘no-no’ in Japan’s post WWII history, after they were handed a pacifist constitution by the USA. The culture of violence is not alien to Japanese nationality, with their own version of triads, mobsters and special assassins woven both in to their chequered […]
27 May 2022 The rare human is one who is able to straddle effortlessly across civilisations, epochs and cultures the way Jawaharlal Nehru did once. As a formidable mass politician, historian and cultural Czar, Nehru remained deeply anchored in both the past and the future, unlike any who led movements or nations before or after […]