12 April 2023 The spectre of Ukraine and its shadow over the rest of the globe is now an absolutely undeniable reality. Even in the immediate vicinity of the Covid Pandemic that struck the commons in 2020, no analyst went so far as to venture on this present scenario where the G7 total economic clout […]
Tag: Japan's Changed Strategic Posture
24 February 2023 The saying about the FOG OF WAR is that ‘No Plan Survives Contact’. So we must understand that two distinct military cultures who are at war in Ukraine are still ‘planning’ and this after one whole year of combat operations which have stood up as a testimony to that adage that ‘more […]
23 December 2022 The year of 2022 has been one which saw China emerge quietly, forsaking her previous stratagem of Wolf Diplomacy and overt trade heckling, moving softly as it were, to attain great advantages in the sphere of politico economic globalism. Compared to the fears of a Chinese melt down following the discovery of […]
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 […]
18 August 2022 Aphorism of Premises: ” Past is not a necessary insight to the Future, However Precedence can be a platform for Predictive Performance as Preference.” There is much speculation about how a World War would be fought in the 21st Century, since the collapse of the Soviet Union triggered the end of the […]
2 August 2022 It is not every day that the boldest strategic sweepstakes is undertaken by a Constitutional figure head in a Democracy. Ms Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the US House of Representatives. She is third in line as POTUS, immediately after the Vice President Ms Kamala Harris is the Constitutional scheme of […]
9 July 2022 A Japanese assassination of a national leader is virtually a ‘no-no’ in Japan’s post WWII history, after they were handed a pacifist constitution by the USA. The culture of violence is not alien to Japanese nationality, with their own version of triads, mobsters and special assassins woven both in to their chequered […]
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, […]
16 July 2021 To paraphrase a popular quote on soldiering, for leadership, let us say, that Angela Merkel is one person about whom generations to come will write that ‘never has history owed so much to one person’! Like the Queen of England, yet not temporally a forever figure, as she remits office this year, […]
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