Tag: STRATEGIC ISSUES
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INDIA IN THE POST COVID-19 WORLD : A PERSPECTIVE BY LT GEN CA KRISHNAN
COVID-19 seems to have become all encompassing. Before we even realised what was happening, it has threatened the life of every single human being on the earth and has even gone to the extent of bringing the world to a grinding halt. A ‘Global lock down’ was unimaginable, even in the wildest of science fictions,…
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THE CORONATION OF THE KING by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
The Needle Points at China The Virus from Wuhan has shaken mankind. While everyone was probably expecting a life changing alien contact as depicted often by Hollywood, a viral protein from Wuhan has left us flatfooted. Its origins are…
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PAINTING ALTERNATE CORONAL TRUTHS By Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
The Search for Alternate Truth The Chinese Government has done a stupendous job in containing the COVID19 in their Country. They have saved a lot of lives and need to be complimented for that. They mounted a military type of response and mobilized all their resources to contain the outbreak and deal with it. However…
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IMPACT OF COVID19 by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Covid 19 is causing a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions and is roiling people worldwide. As per reports the peak of this pandemic seems to be still ahead. Its outcomes might be even more disastrous than what we have seen so far. The world is on the cusp of change notwithstanding the human misery trail…
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AN APPROACH TO THE AF-PAK REGION BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (R)
The Af-Pak region has come into focus with the US-Taliban Deal. It is the start to the impending reduction and eventual exit of US forces from the region. This deal has taken place in a kaleidoscope of the global effects of the Corona Virus and the oil price war initiated by Saudi Arabia. In the…
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THE VIRUS BEYOND CORONA by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
This is a followup on my previous article India At Strategic Cross Roads The Corona Virus is dominating international headlines as it rightly should. However, India is grappling with another virus – the US/Taliban deal. Both these viruses have a bearing on the Indian strategic landscape. There is a subtle shift taking place. While China remains…
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INDIA AT STRATEGIC CROSSROADS by Lt Gen P R Shankar (R)
Changed Times On 05 Aug 2019, when Article 370 was abrogated, India was on top of the Geo strategic game. It was seeking a lasting solution to the K problem in a bold new gambit. Pakistan Army was left wringing its hands on the side-lines. Their PM whined and wailed to no avail.…
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A FLASHBACK ON CHINAS GROWING CLOUT IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS by Lt Gen PR Shankar (retd)
This is essentially a throw back on my article which examined the Question Is China A Superpower? https://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2020/01/is-chinas-power-super-by-lt-gen-p-r.html China is India’s Number One Enemy. George Fernandez, India’s Defence Minister 1. In 2002 the topic of my dissertation during the Higher Command Course was ‘China’s Growing Clout in International Affairs with Particular Reference to its Political,…
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IS CHINA'S POWER SUPER? BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR (RETD)
Read this for a flashback twenty years ago when China’s clout was expanding https://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-flashback-on-chinas-growing-clout-in.html?m=1 Worldwide, people talk of an American dream. If I moved to the US, I could become “American” and my children would certainly be Americans. But moving to China would not make me or my children Chinese. Would it? Is there a China…
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MILITARY LESSONS FROM A STALEMATE BY LT GEN P R SHANKAR ( R)
The US- Iran Spat in Brief On 31 Dec 2019, supporters of Iran backed militia attacked the US embassy in Baghdad. It was in retaliation to an US airstrike on a camp of an Iran backed Hezbollah offshoot group which resulted in the death of 25 fighter’s [1]. USA retaliated by an armed UAV attack…
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