29 May 2023 China was staring at a Thucydides Trap apparently, with the USA reenergising her Asia Pacific presence and alliances, including actively cultivating partnership through Quad and bilaterally with India, who being China’s next door neighbour and gate way to the Indian Ocean, should have been the Canada to China in Continental Asia (CONAS) […]
Category: Geopolitical Strategy
28 May 2023 From what has transpired over the last fortnight, this much is clear that Ukraine appears not to be really sanguine about a conventional counter offensive that has been in the works and talks of the Western capitals that support Kyiv. Indirect evidence suggests that Ukraine’s senior military leader, Commander in Chief General […]
10 May 2023 The first ever visit by a leading Pakistani Official took place when Benazir’s son and chosen heir, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited India as part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meet that was held in Goa last week. This was a unique setting, coming on the heels of a […]
12 April 2023 The spectre of Ukraine and its shadow over the rest of the globe is now an absolutely undeniable reality. Even in the immediate vicinity of the Covid Pandemic that struck the commons in 2020, no analyst went so far as to venture on this present scenario where the G7 total economic clout […]
5 April 2023 It is ironical indeed that Finland lost its neutrality in the very week when Singapore, Saudi Arabia and other Asian countries are seeking to reclaim theirs. The Western AngloSaxon led axis now seems to be fully besotted with Russia that it has probably left the door ajar for China to make her […]
24 February 2023 The saying about the FOG OF WAR is that ‘No Plan Survives Contact’. So we must understand that two distinct military cultures who are at war in Ukraine are still ‘planning’ and this after one whole year of combat operations which have stood up as a testimony to that adage that ‘more […]
7 February 2023 One can actually admire how a few balloons of hot air can disrupt the way of meticulously orchestrated state craft that was to have led to the first ever Chinese Presidential meet up with the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. Diplomatic watchers will aver how remarkable such a face-off would have been, […]
3 February 2023 When the war started in Ukraine, nearly a year ago, no one could have predicted that this would be a long drawn campaign as it turned out to be. Now guess estimates of Ukrainian conflict would stretch to 2024 winter, as we can see that the Russian strategy of militarily forcing Ukraine […]
23 January 2023 Any parable about brothers, about unity from Panchatantra to Jatakas to folk lore will always inform us about how an outside influence disturbs the equilibrium between siblings and promote rivalry. Yet, I am tempted to draw from ancient Tamil history where a poet, Perunchitiranar wrote about two brothers who ruled their kingdom, […]
18 January 2023 Wars have a way of upending what until then were dreary deliberations that meandered like a river into a desert…a nowhere point. Intellectual exercises at times, need this kind of an edge, a sheer drop from a precipice, where the option of further refining or digressing a point meets a fatalism, one […]
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