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. […]
11 November 2022 There is enough evidence now of this #KhersonOffensive that was being analysed for months now, speculating if this was the proverbial Patton’s Third Army of WWII, a phantom exercise that was largely to throw the Russians off track. To many who follow this conflict in Ukraine, this was a steal when the […]
2 November 2022 Uneasy are the heads that lead the Defence of NATO- File Picture from NATO Meeting of Ministers of Defence in October 22. In recent history, never have we seen such a take down in narrative form as has been handed over the Russian military. Once American think tanks used to be in […]
29 October 2022 When Putin announced the launch of Special Military Operations in Ukraine, unlike what the West assessed, it was evident that this was a logical step up in Russian efforts to convince Ukraine from going the NATO way. Where President Biden and his situation room did not act was where Kennedy as President […]
23 October 2022 When things look inevitable, they often are. Collective wishing away from vested corners does not cancel the march of the drumbeats of history. The events of even two years ago could not have envisaged such a smooth extension of President Xi Jinping of China beyond the stipulated two term limit set by […]
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#Ukraine: The Return of Drones!
18 October 2022 If one thought that the day of the Bayraktar TB2 which had won the war decisively in favour of Armenia in Nagorno Karabhakh in 2020, was over as witnessed in the first six months of the Special Military Operations (SMO) in Ukraine, now the Iranian origin and not Turkish Drones are flavour […]
11 October 2022 Aphorism of Terror: To sow an IED you need just a pinch of fertiliser and a fertile mind! For weeks we have been offered a narrative of Russia withdrawing from key cities and towns all along the front of the newly declared ‘annexed provinces’ that consisted of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk […]
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