16 June 2023 Choosing a time when one can call a military campaign with some credible clarity is always fraught with danger. However going merely by headlines of last 10 days in major Western news websites and broad sheets, one can tell that the Ukrainian counter offensive has not managed on ground the kind of […]
9 June 2023 Since the first week of June involves the Normandy beach landing commemorations, the narrative symphony of western media was full throttle on how the Ukrainians were now going to launch their much awaited Spring Offensive, and how as some commentators averred the Ukrainian efforts could lead to end of President Putin himself […]
29 May 2023 China was staring at a Thucydides Trap apparently, with the USA reenergising her Asia Pacific presence and alliances, including actively cultivating partnership through Quad and bilaterally with India, who being China’s next door neighbour and gate way to the Indian Ocean, should have been the Canada to China in Continental Asia (CONAS) […]
28 May 2023 From what has transpired over the last fortnight, this much is clear that Ukraine appears not to be really sanguine about a conventional counter offensive that has been in the works and talks of the Western capitals that support Kyiv. Indirect evidence suggests that Ukraine’s senior military leader, Commander in Chief General […]
27 May 2023 The ghost of Nehru will perhaps know no peace, invoked as a screen, a smokescreen, as a veneer of aggrandisement in the first five decades of his mortal demise and now clearly the scapegoat for any has been, from Mohenjo Daro and perhaps even beyond to the latest twist or turn at […]
15 May 2023 Like Normandy and D Day, considerable expectations have been built up over the type of offensive the Ukrainian Armed Forces now bolstered and replenished with Western armour and armoury would launch across the Dnieper river, into Donbas, with the end goal of throwing out those Russians all the way to the International […]
10 May 2023 The first ever visit by a leading Pakistani Official took place when Benazir’s son and chosen heir, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited India as part of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Affairs Ministerial Meet that was held in Goa last week. This was a unique setting, coming on the heels of a […]
#Ukraine: Hybrid Mode?
5 May 2023 This is a European war with First World War characteristics, happening in an era of what we now recognise in Revolution in Military Affairs as full spectrum warfare and christen as Hybrid Warfare. For a post Colonial Global Commons, this is exactly how the war in Europe dubbed as WWI looked like. […]
3 May 2023 When Labour Day passed off rather peacefully, one would have thought that the last idea that we must entertain is the role of Government in matters economic, which is what socialism is about, where sovereign guarantees create the base for distribution of wealth amongst the commons. Increasingly Free Market Capitalism seems to […]
22 April 2023 This is probably more a theme of blockbuster scripts, a rarified atmosphere beyond the pale of concerns of the commons. Here the big and the bigger are by themselves, where the leverage and manipulation can hold a candle to even the best twists and turns of a potboiler…Art imitates life, life imitates […]