Another unnecessary war, which has the potential to trigger a wider conflict and violence across multiple regions, now enters its fifth week of deaths, destruction, and divisions. The hope of a ceasefire triggered by Pakistan’s efforts is fading. The two sides have intensified their attacks on each other’s critical installations to cause maximum damage before […]
Wars
The Price of Wars and Conflicts (Part I)
The realists gave me a hard time when I defined WAR as Waste of Available Resources. They reminded me of Chanakya Kautilya, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz, and many other academics and practitioners who viewed war as an instrument of policy. Whereas I insisted on Sun Tzu’s precepts that one should aim to win the […]