15 August 2025 It is ironic how the V Day for East ( symbolising the ceremonial surrender of Japan at the end of WW2) would be chosen as Indian Day of Independence by the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in South East Asia, who was also the last Viceroy of India, Earl Lord Mountbatten […]
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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 […]
28 April 2024 When American Congress voted to allocate a further 61Billion $ US to Ukraine for this year, the aid came along with a 17 Billion $ US for Israel. Comparatively Ukraine received significantly reduced outlay for carrying out operations against the Russians who are now geographically redefining the SMO by regularly reducing Ukrainian […]
18 January 2024 There is at play what we call the forces of unintended consequences, those small probables and pieces that when set upon, provoke a domino effect creating a series of ever rising ripples that finally create a tsunami. We don’t quite know when it all started, we can hazard a few educated guesses […]
31 December 2023 It is very easy to sign off with a note of optimism in usual times. However, the previous days that club to become this 2023 have been any thing but usual. In 2022, no one thought that Ukraine would continue to be on the boiler, but now we face the opening up […]
9 December 2023 Disclaimer: This is a fictionalised version of global affairs and real countries or persons mentioned here are for purposes of narrative understanding and not to be construed as factual portrayal. The Emperor sighed as the lights dimmed around him in Forbidden City, whose Denizens had worked toward quelling the unrest in his […]
22 October 2023 The US Navy gathered a flotilla led by Air Craft Carrier USS Gerald R Ford tasking it with keeping in check Israeli aggression even as POTUS landed in Isreal and openly asked that her decision makers not repeat the mistakes made by the US after 9/11. However outwardly the reason for the […]
6 October 2023 If any worthy mentioned that this global order which seemed settled for a bit would face upheavals in this form within 2 years of then Australian PM Morrison declaring a Climate of Strategic Uncertainty, then they were clearly Gods Of Tomorrow. Or they were the leadership of Azerbaijan. If there was any […]
9 August 2023 Like how the American Establishment used the term ‘Star Wars’ to herald a competition of space based weaponry that escalated the Arms Race and triggered the Perestroika and Glasnost transformation of the Soviet Union and brought about the dissolution of the ‘Evil Empire’ shortly thereafter, decades later, it appears that the State […]
29 July 23 Warning: To treat this as fictional or factual, the risk is with the reader. Sometime this month, a centurion centenarian stepped into the arc lights, flanked by the most powerful men of the Middle Kingdom, marking perhaps a milestone once more, five decades later, after he was first conveyed as ‘baggage’ aboard […]
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