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  As the US forces are exiting Afghanistan ahead of their timetable, the Taliban offensive has gained tempo in the northeast and south of the country.  It is inexorably bringing the country closer to the...

  Multi Domain Operations (MDO) are changing battle spaces and the way wars are fought.  The shift towards non-contact warfare is a palpable trend. In this milieu, India’s theatrisation drive has hit a speed bump...

  South China Morning Post reported on June 26, 2021 that the rail link between Lhasa and Nyingchi   in China occupied Tibet (COT) was inaugurated on last Friday and is now operational. The first electric...

India was a poor country in the decade prior to 1971. Two debilitating wars with China (1962) and Pakistan (1965), truant monsoons, high inflation, food shortages and imports  dominated headlines.  Five-year plans were suspended...

  Galwan is a turning point in our history. It was India’s ‘Casabianca’ moment when our boys stood on the burning deck to turn tables. It was that moment in time when India and the...

  This week, Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar visited Kenya to co-chair, along with his Kenyan counterpart, Raychelle Omamo, the third meeting of the India-Kenya Joint Commission. His trip to the strategically located Indian...

On June 13, 2021, Knesset, the parliament of Israel, approved a new eight party coalition government and Naftali Bennett of Yamina party, holding only 07 seats was elected and sworn in as the new...

  The Legislative, Executive and Judiciary are the three pillars of a stable democracy. If one pillar becomes large or oversized, the stability of democracy is in danger. The Constitution of India embraces the idea...

  Please read in conjunction with these earlier articles to get a better overview - Sino Indian Logjam : Aim Gone Astray @ https://www.gunnersshot.com/2021/02/sino-indian-logjam-aim-gone-astray-by.html and A Plan to Retake Pak Occupied Kashmir @ https://www.gunnersshot.com/2019/09/a-plan-to-retake-pak-occupied-kashmir_15.html?m=1 A recent call from Mr Saurabh Kumar,...

Current Status On June 1, some violent incidents occurred in Afghanistan (as marked on the map). Such violence  routinely happen on any given day in the country. Give or take a few. Daily life in...

  The other day I was reading about our vaccination program. It was to save India from the extreme debilitation of the Chinese virus. When the time of reckoning came the cupboard of the ‘pharmacy...

  Nearly a century old Palestinian movement has its own kaleidoscope of internal dynamic, competition for power and legitimacy even if the sole object of their attention remains the Jewish state of Israel. While Palestinians...

    In 326 BCE, a formidable European army invaded India. Led by Alexander of Macedon it comprised battle hardened Macedonian soldiers, Greek cavalry, Balkan fighters and Persians allies. Estimates of the number of fighting men...