25 October 2021 The US lost a great military mind and most capable diplomat, who had personal credibility and standing that was unheralded for the offices he held on his long record of public service, whether as NSA, as Chairman JCS, as America’s Diplomat in Chief as Secretary of State, or even as a retired […]
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15 April 2021 We can see how actually President Biden operates, in a sense that in all probability he gave his Russian counterpart a heads up over the withdrawal from Afghanistan. A series of exposes from the Inspector General in the US DoD, had led to a better understanding of the futility of the efforts […]
11 April 2021This is obviously the more sense of deja vu that any observer of the IOR can lay claim to, a US Fleet vessel of the notorious 7th ( notorious from the subcontinental subconsciousness of 1971) when the flag bearer vessel is announcing https://www.c7f.navy.mil/Media/News/Display/Article/2563538/7th-fleet-conducts-freedom-of-navigation-operation/ its presence to India.Indian social media has responded to the […]
07 April 2021 We can even call this a moment as one ‘when a veteran outflanked a neophyte’. When you have decades at the high table nurturing foreign policy, diplomatic stratagems and strategic calculus, as Mr Lavrov does, you can make the meeting https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/any-solution-in-afghanistan-without-taliban-runs-risk-of-failure-russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-101617719480122.html between even two equals become a meeting of a ‘sounding board’. […]
31 March 2021 No analyst could have predicted the pace at which America has returned to the global arena under President Biden. It was as if, Trump WH had just switched off and to get America back in all that Biden had to do was to switch it back on, I can imagine even that […]
13 March 2021 This is the Ides of March or is it something far more overwhelmingly compelling? President Biden had a full fledged Quad Bloc Anti China coalition meeting before his top diplomat went to Alaska to meet with his Chinese counterpart. Loaded dice? Or is this a tear that was darned double quick so […]
07 March 2021 If one did see way back at the beginning of this millennium a potential for the US to seek partnerships with India as a strategic necessity to counterbalance China, what the decades after that has shown is how an erstwhile ally at the time of World Wars, of the Western Compact, Russia, […]
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10 November 2020 The writing has been on the wall for far too long. Today, the four years of Trump seem to pass by like a movie reel, allowing the viewer to see the parts that may have been missed in the actual blur of happenings, but to a careful observer, not soothsayer, this was […]
30 October 2020 We are still short of a INDOPAC TREATY ORGANISATION (IPTO) which would be the ideal level at which the military planners across Pentagon, South Block, Canberra and Tokyo would be comfortable with, since that would actually entail a clear sense of committed force levels and inter-operational orbatting in mutual defence- military gobbledygook […]
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