18 January 2024 There is at play what we call the forces of unintended consequences, those small probables and pieces that when set upon, provoke a domino effect creating a series of ever rising ripples that finally create a tsunami. We don’t quite know when it all started, we can hazard a few educated guesses […]
Category: Geopolitical Strategy
11 January 2024 The headlines are quite misleading, editorials are even more so. The narrative is now more clear on social media than in any other media, so much so that the virtual presence which is largely unverifiable has been weaponised by software giant India into what can be preliminarily dubbed as ‘troll diplomacy’. Indian […]
31 December 2023 It is very easy to sign off with a note of optimism in usual times. However, the previous days that club to become this 2023 have been any thing but usual. In 2022, no one thought that Ukraine would continue to be on the boiler, but now we face the opening up […]
22 December 2023 The American Secretary of Defence General Lloyd Austin launched Operation Prosperity Guardian. It is most unusual for the Pentagon to create this kind of ‘special purpose’ in an already ongoing deployment in the Persian Gulf-Eastern Mediterranean region, one that straddles the present eye of the storm, engulfing the Middle East- Israel. The […]
9 December 2023 Disclaimer: This is a fictionalised version of global affairs and real countries or persons mentioned here are for purposes of narrative understanding and not to be construed as factual portrayal. The Emperor sighed as the lights dimmed around him in Forbidden City, whose Denizens had worked toward quelling the unrest in his […]
26 November 2023 The treatise of statecraft must have an essential element of power projection judged by the ability of the player to ‘keep the peace’. As much as militaries are instruments to wage war, a true military prowess would be the ability to ensure peace and war only at a time, place and for […]
24 October 2023 (Concluding Part) The White Man has travelled a long way. From once holding the view that whatever he uttered was ‘justice’ and that he was offering civilisation to the uncivilised and dark peoples across the globe whom he considered at best an equal of human’s canine companion- dog ( Famous sign boards […]
22 October 2023 The US Navy gathered a flotilla led by Air Craft Carrier USS Gerald R Ford tasking it with keeping in check Israeli aggression even as POTUS landed in Isreal and openly asked that her decision makers not repeat the mistakes made by the US after 9/11. However outwardly the reason for the […]
19 October 2023 First on 7th October for six hours Hamas operatives surprised IDF across the Gaza in Southern Isreal. They committed wilful murder and destroyed a musical festival in the desert, they descended on Kibbutzs along the Gaza which were encroachments protested to Tel Aviv by Isreal’s closest friend and ally the United States. […]
How Nagorno Karabakh influences geopolitical fault lines in South Asia 4 October 2023 In what can only be described as a military manoeuvre war, the Republic of Azerbaijan has managed to obtain the cartographic relief it has sought for ages, that of the dissolution of autonomous status of Nagorno Karabakh and it’s absorption into its […]
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