21 November 2022 Sometimes, it is better to allow events to swill before you handle it. At least, that is the fortune of analysts, whose role is observation and deduction, not reaction. When Poland was attacked, the G20 was in a huddle in Bali, a summitry which paled because of the absence of Vladimir Putin. […]
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29 October 2022 When Putin announced the launch of Special Military Operations in Ukraine, unlike what the West assessed, it was evident that this was a logical step up in Russian efforts to convince Ukraine from going the NATO way. Where President Biden and his situation room did not act was where Kennedy as President […]
23 October 2022 When things look inevitable, they often are. Collective wishing away from vested corners does not cancel the march of the drumbeats of history. The events of even two years ago could not have envisaged such a smooth extension of President Xi Jinping of China beyond the stipulated two term limit set by […]
11 October 2022 Aphorism of Terror: To sow an IED you need just a pinch of fertiliser and a fertile mind! For weeks we have been offered a narrative of Russia withdrawing from key cities and towns all along the front of the newly declared ‘annexed provinces’ that consisted of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk […]
26 September 2022 Historians are always aware of how important information is, to shaping of morale and managing logistics of war. When the British fought to crush the rebellion that had sparked over greased cartridges in India, 1857 was called many things at that time, including perhaps the last hurrah of India’s royals with their […]
20 September 2022 One needs to look at history as a precedent and not as a font for hubris. Yet the casual views the two as alternatives of each, while the causal looks for the danger signs where from precedence one stumbles into hubris. The nature of the human is such that no individual who […]
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 […]
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