23 February 2024 A moment comes, not rarely, but invariably, in the march of our times, when the dots connect, when a narrative weave is frayed by scrutiny, by the inherent fallacies it has threaded together, under the weight of contradictions of their individual threads. The story of Ukraine’s ‘War for Independence’ is a narrative […]
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16 November 2023 In the weeks following the 7 October 2023 raids by Hamas into Israel which included heavy rocketry and teams of Hamas converging on military units, installations and kibbutz of settlers along the Gaza, what has emerged clearly is how uniquely unsettling this war is. The only clarity so far is that Ukraine […]
12 July 2023 In what can be called a cross roads, NATO finds herself once more as an alliance seeking relevance in the modern post Cold War Epoch, when the global commons have just emerged from a debilitating pandemic and are seeking equity and economic cooperation to rebuild themselves and their populations. Global Poverty had […]
28 May 2023 From what has transpired over the last fortnight, this much is clear that Ukraine appears not to be really sanguine about a conventional counter offensive that has been in the works and talks of the Western capitals that support Kyiv. Indirect evidence suggests that Ukraine’s senior military leader, Commander in Chief General […]
#Ukraine: Hybrid Mode?
5 May 2023 This is a European war with First World War characteristics, happening in an era of what we now recognise in Revolution in Military Affairs as full spectrum warfare and christen as Hybrid Warfare. For a post Colonial Global Commons, this is exactly how the war in Europe dubbed as WWI looked like. […]
10 February 2023 When the Global Commons marched post Cold War, it was the breeze of liberal free market economics that carried the comity of nations through GATT and WTO, by establishment of common markets and free trade zones across regions. While the global economy had been pegged to the US Greenback for more than […]