5 January 2026 Should we begin by exchanging New Year Greetings? Apparently the President of Venezuela greeted Americans on their soil and wished them for the New Year, leaving us a little bewildered and mostly in suspended disbelief. If what Russian sources are correct about, the inner most security detail that secured the President of […]
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13 December 2025 Much has been made about China’s ‘not so’ peaceful rise, however, if one goes by the manner in which UK and USA became the powers they were, China’s rise is in utter contrast a testimony to pacifism. China’s military actions were not adventurism in the period of its new birth, circa AD1949 […]
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OP SINDOOR- After Math
30 May 2025 In what can be classed as the first effective use of air power in a no war no peace scenario, India’s recently concluded Op Sindhoor, ended as it began, abruptly and inconclusively. The reasons are that we as ordinary public and discerning analysts, cannot quite frame the operational references under which the […]
27 May 2025 A month has passed and much of the Genocide in Gaza and the SMO in Ukraine has remained the same, with ‘talks’ being midwifed by the Trump Presidency that increasingly look like mere theatrics and not capable of any alteration of ground situation. The kinetics as folks now call incendiary weaponry being […]
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Trump of Tariffs
5 April 2025 It is easy to play the devil’s advocate or portray President Trump as bedevilled and bent upon destroying America while actually campaigning to MAGA. The Tariffs now unleashed by President Trump with all the pomp and fanfare his administration could muster has created what is meekly termed as ‘disruption’. Here is a […]
23 February 2025 In modern era post the arrival of combustion, a navy has sailed close to the waters of a country which steadfastly identifies itself with its colonial anachronism- Australia. The Chinese PLAN send a triad of warships ( too small to be a flotilla even) that hooked around the Australian Eastern Coast and […]
13 February 2025 It was perhaps the most eagerly awaited Presidency, much like the ‘Return of the King’ myths that abound in popular fiction and folklore, and so far, Trump 2.0 has not failed at all. Most people who are not Trump loyalists chose Trump because the Democrats had signalled a continuity of Obama Biden […]
19 January 2025 As an analyst, this moment we are now seized in, is as rare as they come. It is perhaps a clearest evidence that a Polity that had been at the totem pole for as long as it could remember has suddenly found the ground beneath it shift and yield quite unintentionally overnight […]
14 January 2025 In more than two decades of following current affairs, one has never felt as despondent as towards the end of 2024. There were no signs of the genocide in Gaza letting up, no signs of Ukrainian jingoism tempering, no signs of Russians letting up their ‘meat grinding’ in Kursk and along an […]
12 November 2024 As the year draws to a close, it is time to take a look at systems of government, most importantly one particular form of it that can be called ‘Western Democracy’ which has been at the forefront of the West’s efforts to carve out the rest of the world in its image! […]
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