27 July 2021 I use the term ‘Hot Turkey’ to refer to an abrupt switch from negative dependency to a positive force. If Cold Turkey is a phrase conventionally used to describe sudden stopping of smoking or spirits, by an addict, then Hot Turkey would be an abrupt taking up of a substance by a […]
Category: Geopolitical Strategy
27 July 2021 One never imagined that President Xi would prove to be what he has…like the proverbial chess board where the knights advanced with pawns only to retreat and make space for bishops and rooks, castling to create a fortress, rather than the initially ferocious advance across the white half, he has actually made […]
16 July 2021 To paraphrase a popular quote on soldiering, for leadership, let us say, that Angela Merkel is one person about whom generations to come will write that ‘never has history owed so much to one person’! Like the Queen of England, yet not temporally a forever figure, as she remits office this year, […]
13 July 2021 The ancient concept of Chakravartikshetram uses a judicious mix of economic, social, cultural and military powers as attributes of one who desires to establish a chakravartam, which Sanskrit allows us to describe as sphere of influence. The concept of overlordship is actually more geopolitical in the Tamil concept of ‘mudi venthan’ with […]
02 July 2021 On a day when ideologues from a university started a party, 100 years ago, to today, when the party is a country with an army to boot, on an eternal Long March to People’s Liberation, the contrast in ideals and ideas could not but be helped notice. It was founded under the […]
18 June 2021 Like how the paparazzi keeps making these names up of famous couples, I was forced to consider leaders Putin and Biden as one, and using the first of one and the last of the other, came up with PuDen. I don’t think many analysts expected this from Biden’s Presidency, or at the […]
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Galwan- The year after!
16 June 2021 We can see how Indian strategic community, now appearing largely of military veterans and a few familiar names from civilian backgrounds chose to look back. You can discern three themes here- Galwan was a departure from hitherto fore, where Indian soldiers stood their ground to Chinese bullying tactics and forced heavy casualties […]
10 June 2021 In what can be called great tidings, the major nations that make up G7 other than USA reported a much needed return of confidence in their polity toward the Biden Administration, upwards of 70% as per PEW which is dramatic considering the pitifully low confidence American allies had expressed under Trump Administration. […]
10 June 2021 Many military experts feel that the Nagorno Karabakh campaign was the first time a fully AI enabled weapon was used by the Azeris to gain tactical advantage over the Armenians, one from which the Armenians never quite recovered- Use of drones that were actually hovering/ loitering munitions, that were fire and forget […]
09 June 2021 I am no student of mandarin, yet, I am told that the sounds that are made by characters were once variant from region to region, much like how in Tamil country or in the Hindustani heartland, the lore says that the language transforms from every village precinct to the next. ( Scholars […]
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