5 December 2022 Dr Manmohan Singh, India’s former PM wrote an OpEd in The Hindu in April this year, which spoke of the Global Order, of how it has benefited the Global South as much as it has the Global North, and how the barriers of global trade and tariff needed to stay put, if […]
Tag: Ukraine Flashpoint
#Ukraine: The Return of Drones!
18 October 2022 If one thought that the day of the Bayraktar TB2 which had won the war decisively in favour of Armenia in Nagorno Karabhakh in 2020, was over as witnessed in the first six months of the Special Military Operations (SMO) in Ukraine, now the Iranian origin and not Turkish Drones are flavour […]
3 October 2022 When analysts were hinting at a Ukrainian counter offensive in Kherson Oblast in the south all of the summer, as a final push before winter this year, the AFU was actually planning offensives in the East as it turns out now. This is apparent from how the Russians have reacted to both […]
12 September 2022 On 9/11 America suffered the worst strategic blow to her CNP when the Twin Towers were brought down by a pair of American aeroplanes rammed on to them by Saudi led hijacking teams inspired by Osama Bin Laden 21 years ago. It is one year and ten days since the Americans withdrew […]
#Ukraine: Learning & Leaning
8 September 2022 The ongoing war in Europe is something that few would have foreseen in the aftermath of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. One doubts if even Western military planners imagined ever that they would witness right next door, a conventional war involving artillery, armour, infantry, supported by air and naval forces that […]
7 September 2022 In this era of controlled narratives, one never thought that the West would be finding herself in such a corner. The much touted counter offensive of the AFU ( Armed Forces of Ukraine) was purportedly an armoured counter thrust, bringing to bear the might of American and NATO supplied Armour and Artillery […]
2 August 2022 It is not every day that the boldest strategic sweepstakes is undertaken by a Constitutional figure head in a Democracy. Ms Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the US House of Representatives. She is third in line as POTUS, immediately after the Vice President Ms Kamala Harris is the Constitutional scheme of […]
28 July 2022 Few would have thought that a war in a corner of European fringe, the State of Ukraine borne after the dissolution USSR as a Post Cold War spoil, a bone of contention between the NATO and the Russian regime under President Putin for last two decades, would create a series of economic […]
6July2022 Wish Frederick Forsyth would pen another iteration of his classic which will remain a block buster- The Odessa File. Written about former SS members attempting to keep their brood safe post collapse of the Third Reich involving an investigative journalist, it remains a page turner to this day…What we are now witnessing in Ukraine […]
17 May 2022 So how does the West think it is taking on the Russian Bear? NATO As an Alliance :- NATO: Apparently the Putin Plan which was to disband NATO has been upended by the fact that NATO has not only regrouped after Ukraine became a theatre of war, but also now Sweden, Finland […]