18 August 2024 The details are slowly making a clear outline, as clear as they can be when so proximate to events unfolding at breakneck speeds. What the world of Cyrillic Telegram channels and the Western media like Forbes, CNN, BBC offered were actually initially convergent, even as Russian military bloggers and analysts were quite […]
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9 August 2024 Just when we were focussed on what Iran would do as retaliation for the Haniyeh assassination by elements claimed to be authorised by Tel Aviv, the past 48 hours has seen a small but stunning development that has been now reviewed from very many aspects of the ongoing Special Military Operations in […]
21 March 2024 Ides of March was made famous by Shakespeare as if Mars the God of War in Roman ( as well as Tamil classical antiquity as Sevvai) was at fault for offering a new momentum to a conflict that was perhaps beginning to offer an end game. President Macron has made a series […]
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 […]
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 […]
24 January 2022 What diplomacy does is to dilute the harshness of truth or reality with sophistry of word play, couched with jargon and ceremony that attempts to insulate it. The problem with diplomacy is not that it misunderstands it’s role, but that it takes its role too seriously. The problem currently besetting Western Diplomacy […]
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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