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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pole Position China? 05 October 2021 There are a spate of articles across western media that have focussed largely on China and her rise for close to a decade now. While largely these were written admiring the rapid and unprecedented growth of CCP China, most well researched pieces never lost sight of how the CCP […]
‘Horizon of The Rising Sun’ 28 September 2021 It is not possible to write about Japan, without a reference to its history as a modern power, one that unfortunately carries the baggage of ‘excesses’ in occupied areas including Manchuria, Korea and China, even though, in India, Japanese power was welcomed then, as a Asiatic Power, […]
26 September 2021 The storm clouds had been gathering for quite some time now, starting with how Libya was handled and how the US handling of Syria was criticised by even closest allies. For some time now, American power was evidently distracted and disoriented, or if you were from the other side, diluted and decrepit, […]
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