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 […]
29 May 2023 China was staring at a Thucydides Trap apparently, with the USA reenergising her Asia Pacific presence and alliances, including actively cultivating partnership through Quad and bilaterally with India, who being China’s next door neighbour and gate way to the Indian Ocean, should have been the Canada to China in Continental Asia (CONAS) […]
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 […]
10 August 2022 In our world’s history the most important days would always be the 6th and 9th of August which mark the Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans. The way the bombs were dropped revealed a very Western design to create a new level of human destructive capacity as part of […]
1 December 2021 For those who read this, the familiarity with 9 dash lines, the ruling by Permanent Court of Arbitration in 2016 against the 9 dash line claims of PRC /CPC China, and the background of Chinese attempts to build islands out of shallow shoals and reefs to boost her territorial claims in these […]
Gaming The End Game! 16 October 2021 There is no strategist worth their salt who would not wish to delve into scenario making, trying to project current trends in military postures, economic measures and overall slants in Power Projection of CNP into what can be called the ‘Goals’. In the Western gambit that we have […]
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, […]
26 September 2021 The storm clouds had been gathering for quite some time now, starting with how Libya was handled and how the US handling of Syria was criticised by even closest allies. For some time now, American power was evidently distracted and disoriented, or if you were from the other side, diluted and decrepit, […]
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