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 […]
Category: Geopolitics
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 […]
12 January 2023 Soledar has fallen, even though the West is officially yet to concede this. It is a huge victory for the Russian ground forces, and when this is widened to include Artemovsk and Bahmut main, the position of the Russians now in the centre of Ukraine appears very poised militarily. Coincidentally and may […]
5 January 2023 No one who is observing the Ukrainian situation ever envisaged that the New Year’s Eve or the Festive spirit of Christmas would bring a lull to the campaign or avoid bloodshed. A winter which is yet to freeze the slurry and loose earth that is now the steppe of Ukraine is 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 […]
9 December 2022 Those who read the fates of nations know this that more empires and nations have fallen to internal strife, to insurrection than to external predation in history. Famously the invincible Yadus of Dwarka of the Mahabharata could be epitomising metaphor for this, as a group of princelings consumed by spirits, drunk on […]
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 […]
21 November 2022 Sometimes, it is better to allow events to swill before you handle it. At least, that is the fortune of analysts, whose role is observation and deduction, not reaction. When Poland was attacked, the G20 was in a huddle in Bali, a summitry which paled because of the absence of Vladimir Putin. […]
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