Month: December 2020
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2021 – THE YEAR OF HOPE
2021 – THE YEAR OF HOPE Gunners Shot wishes all of you a very happy 2021. May the new year bring peace and happiness to you, your family , your friends, near and dear ones. May it be the best year of our lives. May it fulfil all your hopes. On behalf myself and my entire family I would…
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CHINAS STRATEGIC MISCALCULATION: WAR AVOIDANCE TO WAR EMBRACEMENT by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
EVEN PAKISTAN DOES NOT TRUST CHINESE VACCINES! THAT IS HOW UNTRUSTWORTHY CHINA IS! In 2001, I was working on my dissertation during my Higher Command course. I came upon this farsighted thought of Deng Xiaoping. He had said In 1984, “ we hope that for at least twenty years there will not be a war, and hope even more for no war…
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Looters of the Fifth Reich by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
OTHER ARTICLES OF THE SAME PLAGIARISED GENRE REVEALING THE TRUE HOLE OF PAKISTAN IN THEIR OWN WORDS STATE OF PAKISTAN PAKISTAN INTERNALISING PAKISTANS SOCIETAL FRACTURE PAKISTANI INSIGHTS NAYA PAKISTAN NAYA ANARCHY A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ORDINARY PAKISTANI THE NEW FORMULA DAWN IN THE DUSK OF PAKISTAN If wishes were horses! Lt General Ghulam…
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India, Tibet and China : The Way Forward . Part 3 – A ‘Needles in Haystacks’ Policy for India by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Before you read further I would recommend that you read the background to this article which is available in the links below THE BASIC ARTICLE : CHINA’S FIVE INSTABILITIES PART1- CHINESE DESIGNS : ILLEGAL AND COERCIVE PART 2 – TIBET : TANGLED AND HELPLESS PART 4 – OUTLINES OF A TIBET POLICY => A very crucial message…
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The State of Pakistan by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Pakistan has arrived. It is neither a rogue state or a failed state alone. It is also a state full of all viruses. It alone classifies to be the living black hole on Earth. The articles are from Pakistani sources and views are Pakistani I have plagiarised them Whatever is in italics is…
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India, Tibet and China : The Way Forward . Part 2 – Tibet : Helpless and Tangled By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
When Indian and Tibetan flags were waved at the funeral of Company Leader Nyima Tenzin of Special Frontier Force who died during the Kailash Range operations , there was widespread belief that ‘Tibet’ issue will be leveraged. It was short-lived due to haziness in Indian thinking, absolute clarity in China and a return to resigned helplessness amongst Tibetans…
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Strategic Perspective of 1971 Bangladesh War : A Vijay Divas Discussion
TODAY IS VIJAY DIVAS. A VERY PROUD DAY FOR INDIA. WE DISMEMBERED PAKISTAN AND CREATED A NATION. ALL IN 14 DAYS. AN UNPARALLELED BLITZKRIEG. HAD A GREAT DISCUSSION WITH SOME OF THE BEST RESEARCHERS IN BUSINESS ON THE 1971 OPERATIONS ON ISSUES HIGHLIGHTED BELOW. Backdrop and geo-political strategy at the national level. Military strategy overall,…
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India, Tibet and China : The Way Forward . Part 1- Chinese Designs: Illegal and Coercive By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
THE BASIC ARTICLE : CHINA’S FIVE INSTABILITIES NEXT IN SERIES PART 2 : TIBET : HELPLESS AND TANGLED PART 3 : A NEEDLES AND HATSTACKS POLICY FOR INDIA PART 4 : OUTLINES OF A TIBET POLICY When Indian and Tibetan flags were waved at the…
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PAKISTAN INTERNALISING by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
In my recent article China’s Five Instabilities I had put forth an argument that an inward looking China will get automatically contained. China cannot be made to look inwards economically or militarily. It must be done politically and diplomatically. Pakistan is a parallel for better understanding. Despite sporadic spikes in violence in Kashmir, the threat from Pakistan is far…
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CHINA’S FIVE INSTABILITIES by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
THE NEXT ARTICLE : INDIA TIBET AND CHINA : THE WAY FORWARD IN FOUR PARTS PART 1 : CHINESE DESIGNS : ILLEGAL AND COERCIVE PART 2 : TIBET : HELPLESS AND TANGLED PART 3 : A NEEDLES AND HATSTACKS POLICY FOR INDIA PART 4 : OUTLINES OF A TIBET POLICY …