Pakistan – an equaliser to Indo China maritime competition on August 29, 2020Bits of broken pottery are usually found ashore at many places all along the littoral states of Indian Ocean. This depicts the history, revealing itself for any carbon testing to reach a conclusion; IOR (Indian Ocean region) is a single contiguous region since centuries. Sea is the place where future is invented in ebb and […]
Indo-China Conflict And The Fourth Peak on July 7, 2020The 21 years old Sajid ali climbed K-2 in July 2019, he is the celebrated son of a very distinguished world famous, Pakistani mountaineer, Ali Sadpara who is the only one in the world to have winter climbed the Nanga Parbat (that too, the record five times). An unbelievable feat. As per Ali Sadpara every […]
Thucydides at the chessboard of Indo-China conflict on June 29, 2020Most subtle, far reaching and highly decibel language is the language of silence. Who can speak this, where it is spoken and how? Only geography, both political and physical is the entity which speaks in the silence. This is beyond the hearing range of humans, the lowly captives at a range of 20 Hz to […]
Indo-China algorithmic standoff on May 29, 2020Border, boundary and the frontier are three things which are easy to define but sometimes difficult to limit or delimit on ground. Strategy is also mute on this as a subject; these are for sure geographical terms with political or sometime geo-political intents. Other thing which creates a fog here is the perception and interpretation, […]
End Of History And Our Thirty Nine Steps on April 15, 2020Francis fukuyama’s end of history and the last man was the harbinger that as cold war is over so there will be the lasting peace and tranquillity. Hot war, cold war or war by other means, have all become suddenly a leaf from Arabian nights. Whimsical, yet believable as a parable to satiate human nerves. […]
National Security, Crona And The Shackled Leviathan on April 3, 2020As the Chinese curse has it, people are living in interesting times. Sometimes books are so intuitive that one feels like experiencing extra sensory perceptions. Albert Camus wrote “Plaque”, Gabriel Marquez authored, “love in the time of cholera “and “hundred years of solitude”, George Orwell wrote “1984”, Daron Acemoglu wrote “the narrow corridor”. The strange […]
Changing spectre of warfare in ever changing world on February 4, 2020Magnetic north is shifting 30 miles a year, it signals the reversal of poles. This will create problems for migrating birds, aviation and other navigations. Mr Modi is probably the only person in the region who knows this fact, therefore shifting his own poles so frequently. Statesmanship and statecraft is actually the art of practicing […]
Kashmir under saffronic shroud on August 18, 2019All war theories revolve around the concept of jus bellum (just war doctrine) or at the most, jus ad bellum (right to war) which is a set of criteria to be established before engaging in war. India has lost the sense of both of these concepts. It is waging war against the people, violating every […]
Economic security of Pakistan and the blue sapphire on July 7, 2019Barry buzan and his books were all about security. He is famous for his theories of securitisation but actually his biggest contribution through his publications is to establish a link between the security and the logic of anarchy. The logic of anarchy is the key to study the security in its multifaceted forms. All anarchies […]
Indian strategic atrophy and the olive tree on April 14, 2019Mr Modi since last few months is trying to rewrite the Tibetan book of living and dying. He is suffering from directional delusion as far as dealing with Pakistan is concerned. Sense of grandeur is converting into paranoia, especially, when, one after the other every assertion made by the tea boy ended up as fake […]