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Discerning China’s Game Plan
- May 28, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia (Retd)
- Category: China
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“Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
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A diplomatic cocktail with deadly fizz is brewing between US, Pakistan and Afghanistan
- May 28, 2021
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Pakistan
US withdrawal from Afghanistan has spurred curious events, including a quiet meeting between Pakistan NSA Moeed Yusuf & his US counterpart Jake Sullivan in Geneva.
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Gautam Moorthy | An out of the box solution to end Israel, Palestine row
- May 28, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen Gautam Moorthy (Retd)
- Categories: Middle East, West Asia
The situation today is that the Palestinians remain hopeful of regaining the West Bank without Israeli settlements
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A top Army doctor transferred in middle of pandemic says a lot about India’s civil-military ties
- May 19, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Category: India
The transfer of Maj Gen Vardhan from Delhi’s Base Hospital has been officially justified as routine HR process. But there is more than what meets the eye.
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COVID ‘War’: Lessons from the Battlefield – For India to ‘Win’
- May 19, 2021
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Uncategorized
Lt Gen (Retd) Satish Dua shares his lessons from the battlefield as he urges India to unite to fight the pandemic.
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A defence minister with military background — a risk India needs to take
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Category: India
The Modi government has initiated several defence reforms. But mere political acumen of the defence minister is insufficient to steer them.
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Don’t just game the system, return to Kautilya’s goal of happiness in Covid 2nd wave
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen (Dr) Prakash Menon (Retd)
- Category: India
India will soon witness a blame game — the Centre will blame states, govts will blame private sector and citizens. But the gaming of political system won’t be discussed much.
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Dealing with the trauma of COVID
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Category: India
Death in a hospital, on an ICU bed and under effective medical care brings a level of mental satisfaction to family members, of having done their best to save a life.
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The Pakistan TLP Phenomena
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Category: Pakistan
Pakistan always presents such profound options to the weekly columnist. Yet, the last two weeks have actually been beyond all expectations.
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Pandemics and Their Effect
- May 12, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Category: India
Except for a brief period in 1998 when I was researching for a dissertation on ‘Non Military Threats’, I never ever focused on pandemics as a source of existential security threat to a nation.
