17 April 2024 At the time of writing, IDF is yet to retaliate against Iran’s fireworks in the sky a few days back. Many observed that it was a night of great significance, almost Biblical when in Moses’ miracles, first born in every house were smitten by the Lord God. For one sitting far removed […]
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16 March 2024 Is morality the Ides of March for a military? The scope of this essay is not to examine the record of modern post world wars military conflicts for their record vis-à-vis the Geneva Conventions, but a simpler premise that do militaries need to have an ethical core around which they can rally, […]
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Pakistan: A Turn Toward India?
12 February 2024 The decades after Independence, most Pakistanis would be polite and reticent with an attitude of quiet discomfiture that said- we are like that only, when they met their Indian counterparts. Especially for those who spoke Punjabi, the last few decades when Pakistan was involved with jehad and Afghanistan and spiralled downward economically, […]
18 January 2024 There is at play what we call the forces of unintended consequences, those small probables and pieces that when set upon, provoke a domino effect creating a series of ever rising ripples that finally create a tsunami. We don’t quite know when it all started, we can hazard a few educated guesses […]
11 January 2024 The headlines are quite misleading, editorials are even more so. The narrative is now more clear on social media than in any other media, so much so that the virtual presence which is largely unverifiable has been weaponised by software giant India into what can be preliminarily dubbed as ‘troll diplomacy’. Indian […]
22 December 2023 The American Secretary of Defence General Lloyd Austin launched Operation Prosperity Guardian. It is most unusual for the Pentagon to create this kind of ‘special purpose’ in an already ongoing deployment in the Persian Gulf-Eastern Mediterranean region, one that straddles the present eye of the storm, engulfing the Middle East- Israel. The […]
9 December 2023 Disclaimer: This is a fictionalised version of global affairs and real countries or persons mentioned here are for purposes of narrative understanding and not to be construed as factual portrayal. The Emperor sighed as the lights dimmed around him in Forbidden City, whose Denizens had worked toward quelling the unrest in his […]
26 November 2023 The treatise of statecraft must have an essential element of power projection judged by the ability of the player to ‘keep the peace’. As much as militaries are instruments to wage war, a true military prowess would be the ability to ensure peace and war only at a time, place and for […]
16 November 2023 In the weeks following the 7 October 2023 raids by Hamas into Israel which included heavy rocketry and teams of Hamas converging on military units, installations and kibbutz of settlers along the Gaza, what has emerged clearly is how uniquely unsettling this war is. The only clarity so far is that Ukraine […]
2023 November 3rd Premise: The attendant avalanche of information that is coming from OSINT and official sources suggests the following:- Without going into who are the good guys and who the bad, we can just see how the period of consolidation of the Global South that has been midwifed by President Putin and to some […]
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