12 November 2020 The decade of drift of Israeli polity under PM Netanyahu is one where Trump Presidency was not as much the major instigator as it was a catalyst. For a first, it was unique to see Germany, UK and France weigh in on a continental scale, in contrast to the US on the […]
10 November 2020 The writing has been on the wall for far too long. Today, the four years of Trump seem to pass by like a movie reel, allowing the viewer to see the parts that may have been missed in the actual blur of happenings, but to a careful observer, not soothsayer, this was […]
30 October 2020 We are still short of a INDOPAC TREATY ORGANISATION (IPTO) which would be the ideal level at which the military planners across Pentagon, South Block, Canberra and Tokyo would be comfortable with, since that would actually entail a clear sense of committed force levels and inter-operational orbatting in mutual defence- military gobbledygook […]
25 October 2020 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty(SALT) and it’s variant Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) defined much of what we can call as a Western Doctrinal Consensus borne from the bed rock of Mutually Assured Destruction(MAD). From the late 80s including a Declaration for a Nuclear Disarmament that was championed by late Rajiv Gandhi and […]
21 October 2020 In what was missed by most main stream watchers/media, a PLA soldier was returned to Chinese side at a border outpost along the Ladakh frontierhttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/chinese-soldier-who-strayed-into-lac-in-ladakh-handed-back-to-china/articleshow/78779879.cms. The details are not incidental, nor does one suppose this to be a one off. The PLA ploy could well be to muster Humint in Ladakh in […]
29 September 2020 I did not want to write about how Democracy must now be looking from afar. There is still some form of democracy in Russia, and so when I meant afar, I mean only China and the CCP regime. America always seems to be able to just keep her head above water, increasingly […]
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