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, […]
Category: Geopolitical Strategy
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 […]
22 December 2022 When this blogging site was started four years ago this day, the world appeared to be chugging along nicely. The concerns were of a Thucydides Trap that would see a joust inevitable between America and China no doubt, but an Indian and larger Asian promise seemed to be that glue that would […]
15 December 2022 The on going military conflict, dubbed SMO by Russians, called ‘war for freedom’ by the West, is a conflict that has rewritten every law of war hitherto fore. While much of the military sphere is predictable and precedent, there are clearly new trends in the basic element of military force- soldiering. We […]
5 December 2022 Dr Manmohan Singh, India’s former PM wrote an OpEd in The Hindu in April this year, which spoke of the Global Order, of how it has benefited the Global South as much as it has the Global North, and how the barriers of global trade and tariff needed to stay put, if […]
28 November 2022 No power in the world has the kind of stomach that Russia has demonstrated over centuries, and more recently with the advent of modern warfare first with Napoleon’s Campaign and then with Operation Barbarossa that Hitler launched in WWII. In large measure, Russia was to lead the fight by herself, through a […]
11 November 2022 There is enough evidence now of this #KhersonOffensive that was being analysed for months now, speculating if this was the proverbial Patton’s Third Army of WWII, a phantom exercise that was largely to throw the Russians off track. To many who follow this conflict in Ukraine, this was a steal when the […]
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 […]
3 October 2022 When analysts were hinting at a Ukrainian counter offensive in Kherson Oblast in the south all of the summer, as a final push before winter this year, the AFU was actually planning offensives in the East as it turns out now. This is apparent from how the Russians have reacted to both […]
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