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The Great Chinese Rope Trick
The Great Chinese rope trick is being played out and many of us are believing it! China has declared that its GDP has gone up by 5.3% . However all its other indices are falling down – trade, jobs, stocks or exports! That is why it is a great rope trick. As always about China…
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Iran Israel War : Political Aspects
Lt Gen K R Rao (R) and I went into the political aspects and compulsions of Iran and Israel in their ongoing war. Some very important and interesting aspects came out in this discussion. This is a war with deep roots of animosity and one which has no acceptable solution. We are going to see…
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ISRAEL IRAN WAR : THE SHIFTING RED LINES OF WEST ASIA
Interested in the cauldron called West Asia? See this. Lt Gen Ata Hanain (R) and I covered a wide canvas in this episode. Iran and Israel, once good friends, are now at war with each other with no solution. The other rivalry is between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia. These rivalries constitute a set…
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Israel Iran War : The Counterstrike?
Was Israel’s action a counterstrike, a probe or a strategic message to Iran? It probably is all of that and much more. The focus has shifted away from Gaza and is now on the larger West Asia crisis with larger ramifications. Every actor in this drama has stakes . Lt Gen Dushyant Singh (R) and…
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India Pakistan Multi Domain Scenario
Global Geopolitics is dominated by multi domain approaches. For long we have been attacked through multiple domains by Pakistan and China. Mostly our responses have veered towards a kinetic thought process. It is time we think of multi domain responses, gray zone, hybrid and asymmetry. After all it takes two to play a game. It…
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Living and Fighting in High Altitudes
Sometime back I saw in ‘X’ a report that PLA will most likely resort to firepower than physical attacks in High Altitudes since their soldiers are attached to oxygen bottles in High Altitudes. It indicates a basic deficiency in PLA. It is sort of emerging that their soldiers will struggle in high altitudes. People need…
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Israel Iran War ; The Deepening West Asia Crisis
Mr Sanjay Dixit and I discussed the Iran Israel war and what lies ahead in the deepening crisis in West Asia. The world has not been closer to a WW3 than this time. However the opportunity for India to be a peace maker in this crisis is huge since big powers are part of the…
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India’s Thorium Leap : Towards Self Sufficient Nuclear Energy
Recently, the PM witnessed the commencement of core loading of India’s Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam. This commences the start of the critical second stage of our three stage nuclear program which is based on the Thorium cycle.
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Israel Iran War : The Strategic Shift in West Asia
Israels attack on the Iranian Embassy in Damascus and Iran’s retaliatory mass drone cum missile attack has shifted the West Asian conflict scenario considerably. Iran has been forced to come out of the shadows. The conflict scenario has become complicated with potency to expand and draw others in. The next step from Israel will inform…
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Pakistan Army : The Ultimate Extra Constitutional Authority
Lt Gen Gautam Moorthy (R) and I discussed how the Pakistan Army has usurped extra constitutional powers with time. In present times, Pakistan Army has given to itself such powers that the constitution is a rubber stamp. In fact it would not be wrong to say that the edict(s) of the Pakistan Army is the…
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