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 […]
Tag: Crimean Annexation
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
11 April 2022 We saw on this blog of 25 March 2022, if the narrative of the West about Russian performance was correct or if there was a plausible alternative that Putin was merely shuffling his pack and playing with options and opportunities as they arose in the face of unfolding events in Ukraine. As […]
3 March 2022 For those who grew up reading ‘The Race to the Swift’ or Indian military strategists familiar with General Sundarji and Operation Brasstacks, there would be much to read into the current military strategy of Putin’s Generals. The West and its acolytes in media across countries and ‘democratic systems’ are talking up the […]
20 December 2021 If there was a lesson in how the West lost the war of keeping the peace after winning the battle defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War, it has been on relentless play for close to three decades now. If the Cold War denouement was a rare opportunity for America to […]
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