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Summitry Asymmetry Part 2- The Game of Narratives

19 November 2021 What most people forget is that globally, history is what is a victor’s version. If the Nazi regime had not lost to the Allies, the entire eugenic construct of racial purity and superiority would have gained a different sales pitch, one not withstanding Jesse Owens and Lutz Long who demonstrated the elementary […]

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The Summitry Asymmetry- Biden Xi Summit

18 November 2021 We have witnessed now for quite sometime, an era where post Cold War, there were Groups, G7, 8, 20, 77 etc. We have seen new bodies form since 1950s, such as ASEAN, SAARC, SCO, CIS, African Union, NAM, some that have now fallen clearly by the wayside, some that have lost their […]

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America China Climate & Environmental Challenges Covid19 Pandemic Geopolitical Strategy

Australia- The Slippery Slope of Strategic Identity!

10 November 2021 For a continent size island, located in Indo Pacific region, Australia has always played a second fiddle even after decades when Great Britain whose former colony she once was, proved to be a lesser power, after a brief skirmish over Falklands (1980s) with Argentina which the then British Government used to reclaim […]

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Chinese Dragons-Quixotic Responses?

 8 November 2021 There are apparently in the realm of Strategic Thinkers a two and a half front for the PLA and her CMC masters- One each on the Himalayan and Taiwanese fronts as a land and water boundary, plus half a front that is literally half way across the ocean that bears India’s name […]

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COP26-Derailed by Deferment?

 4 November 2021 From almost the very start, the pull out of China from the high table for discussions on COP26 targets was like saying that there would be an examination with no compulsory attendance and whose results would have no bearing on the academic record! While the choice of Glasgow as the venue, where […]

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Beyond Immediacy- The Need For New SALT!

 28 October 2021 Boys with toys! This is the petty way to look at how the media is now grappling with the news of hypersonic glide weapon tests, the US recently confirmed that it has failed twice, the Chinese alluding to a success, one which General Mark Milley the US Chairman JCS, has termed “‘very […]

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Powell-Propelled by Doctrine!

25 October 2021 The US lost a great military mind and most capable diplomat, who had personal credibility and standing that was unheralded for the offices he held on his long record of public service, whether as NSA, as Chairman JCS, as America’s Diplomat in Chief as Secretary of State, or even as a retired […]

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Putin the Pacifier!

24 October 2021 When we discuss these times in the coming decades, there will be a case for how Russia was a missing piece in the plot to keep our global order in balance. How the great animosity of the West to the legacy state of the Soviets was quite unjustified and how a series […]

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#AUKUS: Beyond Partnerships and Platitudes-5

Gaming The End Game!  16 October 2021 There is no strategist worth their salt who would not wish to delve into scenario making, trying to project current trends in military postures, economic measures and overall slants in Power Projection of CNP into what can be called the ‘Goals’. In the Western gambit that we have […]

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#AUKUS: Beyond Partnerships and Platitudes-4

India in Dilemma or Deliberation?  08 October 2021 No country has invested more in identifying China as a Global Power as India has. Not just because of her civilisational linkages with China, or cultural ties that are perhaps the most ancient and most celebrated, one that invested in every corner of each other’s lands and […]

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