23 December 2020 If four years ago I had seen a US military member mention the word- ‘take over’ I would have simply baulked at it and dismissed it as nonsense. If any country was coup-proof after India, it was the USA! Yet watching General Michael Flynn actually mouth words to that effect https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/trump-oval-office-meeting-special-counsel-martial-law/index.html, with […]
Category: Geopolitics
20 December 2020 Before we take things to mean more than what they are, Mr Rahul Gandhi’s walking out of a Parliamentary Committee hearing on Defence is being interpreted by too many people and with such bias that I cannot understand.Look at farmers being blamed as misled by Pakistan and China! It is as if […]
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Persia Engulfed
28 November 2020 There is the usual conversation going about how President Trump is not a regular president when it came to national security matters, how neither does he read the Daily Presidential Brief, nor does he hold sacred stuff that has been Presidential privilege to know. Yet what happened in an innocuous thoroughfare in […]
25 November 2020 One of the worst decisions taken by President Trump was his firing of Secretary Defense Mr Esper for refusing to kowtow his desire to pull out American Troops from Afghanistan before the end of his term, ahead of any verifiable mutual agreement between the Taliban and the Afghan government at Kabul https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-how-will-a-u-s-drawdown-impact-afghanistan/. […]
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Xinjiang-Chink In China?
23 November 2020 As we study the contours of the conflict in the Caucasus region, the attention of any one who has interest is drawn to the ethnic nature of this conflict. How Turkic people are driving this Azeri effort to take back territories lost in the first Karabakh war of 1990s is not the […]
17 November 2020There are many efforts at trying to portray how a Biden Harris administration would look at the world, and while now it is clear that Biden ticket will end up close to 80 million popular votes with a clear margin of almost as many votes that Trump added to his 2016 successful electoral […]
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O’ Jerusalem!
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 […]
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America & The Vote
9 November 2020 I never thought that such words would emerge from my desk, devoid of my innate sense of optimism, a flair for the naiveté and brimming with the hope that humanism always serves with unvarnished optimism. That I would condemn the Americans as a misogynist, racist, atavistic, parochial and anti science conglomerate of […]
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Blasphemy & Terrorism
1 November 2020 There is never a good time to discuss this notion, yet as we see religious intolerance spread its tentacles across continents, we see its shadow stretching far across the horizons at a horrifying scale largely due to a sense of understanding and lack of effective pushback. For those who are critical of […]
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 […]
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