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The shifting red lines in West Asia
- May 21, 2024
- Posted by: admin
- Category: West Asia
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Iran and Israel keep crossing regional lines to target each other
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The War in West Asia
- February 26, 2024
- Posted by: admin
- Category: West Asia
This war involves Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, Iran and the US.
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West Asia – in the Throes of a Disruptive 2023 and not so Different 2024
- February 13, 2024
- Posted by: admin
- Category: West Asia
Even as the 2023 turned out to be literally the hottest year in history
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Jaishankar in Moscow: Are India’s relations with the US-led West strained?
- January 6, 2024
- Posted by: admin
- Categories: India, West Asia
It will be a fallacy to see Jaishankar’s visit through the prism of India’s relations with the US and other Western countries.
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How diminishing influence of US in West Asia is opening up spaces for Russia, China
- January 3, 2024
- Posted by: admin
- Categories: China, Russia, West Asia
The recent high-level interactions by President Putin have placed him in a favourable position in the region along with China
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Will West Asia Conflagarate ?
- December 18, 2023
- Posted by: admin
- Category: West Asia
Col Ajay Singh (R) and I had a wide ranging and informed discussion on the widening crisis in West Asia as a whole.
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Reviewing Iran’s Presidential Election and Its Geopolitical Effect
- June 24, 2021
- Posted by: Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)
- Categories: Middle East, West Asia
Ever since 1979, when the Iranian Revolution hit the streets in Tehran and there emerged in Iran a regime unfriendly to the West and that is hell bent on creating a new niche in the geopolitical environment of the Middle East, we have had an unrelenting power game centred on Iran’s ambitions.
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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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Is a Global Hot War in the Offing
- September 1, 2020
- Posted by: Lt Gen PR Kumar (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Europe, Foreign Affairs, General Topics, Military, Rest of the World, SAARC, Uncategorized, USA, West Asia
While the underlying acrimony, historical baggage and differences gives rise to an adversarial/confrontational/volatile relationship/situation, the actual trigger which starts the shooting war could be a minor incident. The aptly named ‘Pig War’ in 1859 between the United States and Great Britain in Don Juan island, started over a slaughtered swine.
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Need Bravery not Bravado
- July 31, 2020
- Posted by: Brig Deepak Sinha (Retd)
- Categories: ASEAN & ARF, China, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Rest of the World, SAARC, Strategic Affairs, USA, West Asia
In the preface to his insightful work, Generalship: Its Disease and Cure, British military tactician Major-General JFC Fuller quotes an apocryphal tale told to him by a member of the French General Staff. “At the battle of Waterloo, Colonel Clement, an infantry commander, fought with bravery; but unfortunately, was shot through the head.
