Month: October 2023
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Israel Palestine At War
Lt Gen Shokin Chauhan (R) and I had a lucid and clear headed discussion on the dilemmas confronting Israel in its war against Hamas. This is going to be a long winded and complicated war with far reaching consequences. This is the initial assessment ….
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End of The 100 Year Chinese Marathon (Part1) – Demography
I believe that the decline of China’s power has commenced. In this series I am going to examine various facets of China’s national power which are crumbling irrevocably. This is the first part in which I have discussed Demography. The other parts will include Ideology, Structural Issues, Climate, Geopolitics and Military. watch out for the…
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Galvanising India’s Defence Industrial Base
AVM Pranay Sinha (R) outlined the nuts and bolts of what needs to be done to galvanise our defence industrial base. The hurdles we have created for ourselves are huge. Apart from overhauling the DRDO, there is a need to change some aspects of the Karger system. Within the DRDO itself, there is a lot…
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India : The Fulcrum of the Global Order
Think about it. India for all its faults can no more be ignored. No global solution is feasible without India. Increasingly, India is emerging as the fulcrum in the emerging global order. Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan(R) and I discussed about it. It was an interesting discussion. We also had a discussion on the raids going…
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What is Pakistan Upto?
Pakistan is upto a lot of things is what we discovered during the course of our discussion. Irrespective of the internal political or economic state of Pakistan, its anti India rant will not vanish and hence will always be a source of trouble for us. The evolving situations in Pakistan pose peculiar challenges to India…
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Overhauling DRDO : What Is To Be Done
This conversation with V Adm Raman Puri (R) went beyond overhauling DRDO and into issues which need to be tackled alongside. The major issue which came out is that DRDO is a silo with poor laterals with the people it is supposed to serve. Unless this silo is broken things will not improve. If silos…
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The End of China’s 100 Year Marathon By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
China’s 100-Year Marathon Towards Global Domination is ‘Out Of Breath’; Future Appears Rocky From 2030 Published in The Eurasian Times @ https://www.eurasiantimes.com/chinas-100-year-marathon-towards-global-domination-out/ There is lot of chatter about China’s economic woes. Everyone has a view of what has gone wrong with the Chinese economy. Most of these analysts were in the chorus cheering China’s 100-year…
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THE STROM IN A TEACUP ABOUT THE TOWED GUN SYSTEM
There is a lot of hype based on misinformation about the Army’s plan to induct a lighter towed gun system which is better suited for the mountains and can adapt to futuristic requirements on the battle field. This video clarifies all this including trashing social media activism.
Gunners Shot 