Category: Strategic and Geopolitical
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AN ANALYSIS OF ARAMCO ATTACKS BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
The Aramco Attacks The Outcomes. On 14 Sep 19 at about 0400h, the ARAMCO oil refineries at Khurais and Abqaiq were attacked. The attacks were simultaneous in two waves. It was reported that the attack was carried out using a combination of 25 UAVs and cruise missiles. Analysis later revealed that there were 19 strikes…
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Disruption in Military Affairs (DMA): A Technology Centric Approach
https://bharatshakti.in/disruption-in-military-affairs-dma-a-technology-centric-approach/ December 24, 2018; By: Lt Gen P R Shankar (Retd); 1 Print Email Editor’s Note The armed forces of all nations are having to re-think their doctrines with technologies disrupting the ways and means of conducting conventional and non-conventional operations. The major focus of big powers today remains development of disruptive technologies to win battles at the…
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The Tale Of Two Corridors Beyond Gwadar & Chabahar
Image Courtesy: World News Report https://bharatshakti.in/the-tale-of-two-corridors-beyond-gwadar-chabahar/ September 06, 2017; By: Lt Gen PR Shankar (Retired); 1 Print Email Editor’s Note The China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) terminates at Gwadar Port. Its value for China is indeed strategic. However, what it would do to Pakistan’s economy and sovereignty is debatable. Next to Gwader, less than a 100 km away,…
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GENERALSHIP IN MULTI DOMAIN OPERATIONS BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (RETD)
At Army Futures Command, we believe in utilizing the best expertise,whatever the source, to create innovative solutionsfaster and better. We’re on a quest to modernize the way the Army does business by creating a space of endless possibilitiesto explore, develop, and test new methods, organizations, and technologies. Above all else, we want to make sure…
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WAR IS CHANGING. ARE WE? By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
I got some great feedback on my earlier article in which I highlighted the concept of Multi Domain Operations (https://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2019/10/era-of-disruption-in-military-affairs.html) and the requirement of Indian strategic thinking to align with this emerging thought process. The feedback suggested that it was a…
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Era of Disruption in Military Affairs: Need for Multi Domain Operations By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Original Article @ bharatshakti.in Preamble Generat Bipin Rawat recently stated “ The next war will be fought with indigenous weapons and we will win it.” He qualified it by saying “If we are looking at the contours of future warfare, it may not necessarily be contact warfare. So, there is a realm of non-contact warfare. We need…
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