Remembering Danish Siddiqui 17 July 2021 What the Taliban did not know, was the backlash of killing a journalist? That as war correspondents and photographers of conflict areas and conflicting narratives, did Danish Siddiqui not know how much he was putting himself to risk? Deep within the various tributes that are now flooding Twitter about […]
Category: Terrorism
HEADLINES From The Hindu on 29 June and 3 July 2021 say it all! 03 July 2021 We have had much of back and forth on the Jammu Air Force Base as well as some Army border posts, claiming the passes made by drones allegedly tossing some explosives that would have damaged the sensitive security […]
26 June 2021 For three days, I have been trying to meditate on what are the take aways from the Delhi meeting of members of JK polity with the Union Governmental leadership. This is no ‘all party meet’ to kickstart political process after it has stayed halted in the aftermath of the announcements of August […]
10 June 2021 Many military experts feel that the Nagorno Karabakh campaign was the first time a fully AI enabled weapon was used by the Azeris to gain tactical advantage over the Armenians, one from which the Armenians never quite recovered- Use of drones that were actually hovering/ loitering munitions, that were fire and forget […]
15 April 2021 We can see how actually President Biden operates, in a sense that in all probability he gave his Russian counterpart a heads up over the withdrawal from Afghanistan. A series of exposes from the Inspector General in the US DoD, had led to a better understanding of the futility of the efforts […]
07 April 2021 We can even call this a moment as one ‘when a veteran outflanked a neophyte’. When you have decades at the high table nurturing foreign policy, diplomatic stratagems and strategic calculus, as Mr Lavrov does, you can make the meeting https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/any-solution-in-afghanistan-without-taliban-runs-risk-of-failure-russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-101617719480122.html between even two equals become a meeting of a ‘sounding board’. […]
05 April 2021 For those who do not know, if there is a grass roots ‘son/daughter of soil’ armed struggle in India that has no ethnic or religious affiliation it is this of Communist orientation, labelled after China’s first CCP Chairman Mao and known in security and socioeconomic discussions as Maoists/Naxals. ( The Naxal is […]
Flashville @ Nashville
26 December 2020 I have waited for some time to see if any details will emerge that could be confirming my initial analysis of what went down in the main streets of Nashville, in front of its tallest building belonging to AT& T on Christmas morning in the State of Tennessee.My initial thoughts were simple […]
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/. […]