Month: November 2023
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The End Of China’s 100 Year Marathon (Part 4 ) : Climate Change
This is the fourth part of the series. In this part I have outlined as why Climate Change will hit Chinese power very hard and put a cap on its Gross National Power. The rate of variation in China’s climatic conditions is astounding. The impact on agriculture, energy and livelihood is very significant and pretty…
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Conflict Overview and Open House
In this episode I gave out an update on the conflicts around the world and where they are heading. there were many questions on various issues which were posed. The quality of questions and comments are far improved from when I started the Channel.
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Indian Military and The Globe
This is the talk I gave at the Jaipur Dialogues Annual Event. It is about how India can become a power of consequence and how to strengthen its Armed Forces. The talk is in Hindi.
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Will China Attack Taiwan?
This is a popular question on everyone’s mind these days. I doubt if it will but why will people believe me ? Hence I analysed two viewpoint on this issue in this episode – one from Not and one from SCMP. Both indicate that Xi will hesitate to step across the Taiwan Straits. watch the…
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SUPERPOWERS : PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE
This video is unique since it is an examination of superpowers – what they were and why they were. I have examined the Roman, Mongol and British Empire which were the true superpowers of the past along with USSR. in the present there is USA. The future…..have a look at the video.
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Overhauling DRDO and Atmanirbharta
Previous episodes on overhauling DRDO were through the lens of senior officers. This episode is about is how a junior officer who has been in the defence industry from long looks at the DRDO and what is the overhaul required. Lt Col Manoj Channan (R) gave out a clear SWOT analysis of DRDO which I…
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QATAR : THE GAS SUPERPOWER AND GEOPOLITICAL SWITZERLAND
This was a joint presentation between Strive Dialogues and Gunners Shot. It elicited tremendous response and great views. The presentation will reveal to you the Qatar has a finger in many pies and has made an art out of having its cake and eating it too. It strategy is simple – Survival. Indian diplomacy will…
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THE END OF CHINA’S 100 YEAR MARATHON (PART 3) : ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
The third episode on China’s power structure, was a joint program with P Gurus. In this I have covered how flawed China’s economic structure is. At this point of time it might appear that China’s economy can recover. However there are no visible changes in policy which indicate that the reforms will revive the economy.…
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Will West Asia Conflagarate ?
Col Ajay Singh (R) and I had a wide ranging and informed discussion on the widening crisis in West Asia as a whole. It was a discussion which was contra to normal thought processes to a certain extent. The issue which emerges is that could Israel have been more restrained? I think so.
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