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Dear Mr Nitin Pai, I read with interest your opinion piece in The Print titled Don’t politicise Indian armed forces. Just look at what it did to our police ( https://theprint.in/opinion/dont-politicise-indian-armed-forces-just-look-at-what-it-did-to-our-police/241965/). I agree with your fundamental idea that...

Dear Mr Nitin Pai, I read your opinion piece in live mint about how new military bases could seed new cities and create jobs with great interest. ( https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/opinion-how-new-military-bases-could-seed-new-cities-and-create-jobs-1558885126976.html) Your fundamental idea of creating a win-win...

In the heat of our election results a news item slipped by. “Pakistan test-fires ballistic missile Shaheen-II”. The thought again came to mind. Naya Pakistan- Na tel (no oil). Na Pani (no water). Na...

The Basics. Digitalization is disruptive. It is transformative. In defense matters it is here to stay but has some way to go. Why? Its creators are young who do not know about defense. Its...

The Contrast In 1971 India was a poor country with strong and modern Armed Forces. Pakistan’s peremptory airstrike was shot out of the air. In the next two weeks, we bisected the nation surgically, created...

The second BRI Forum was recently held at Beijing (25-27 Apr 2019). In the first Forum, grandiose plans were announced and BRI took off like a tornado and suffered hiccups. Countries became wary of...

This article may kindly be read with my earlier articles at links indicated below for a better understanding https://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-quick-supplement-for-understanding html://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-simplistic-understanding-of-low-earth.html Long back I had a course-mate to whom I was explaining basic trigonometry and that Sin X/X...

Today my day was made. After three weeks I got a response on my blog (https://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-rebuttal-to-spice-miss-theories-at.html) on my views which I had expressed wherein I had proved beyond doubt that The Australian expert was flawed...

A satellite can be used for many military purposes. Primarily, military satellites are used for Communication, Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance, Navigation, Meteorological Observations and Electronic Warfare. Theoretically any satellite, can carry out these functions...

  The articles ‘New High Res Satellite Imagery Suggests Balakot Airstrike a ‘Precise Miss’’and ‘Were India’s airstrikes in Pakistan a strategy for public approval’? by a set of researchers from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute...

Debate is raging in the political, military, diplomatic and journalistic circles regarding the Surgical Strike strategy of the current government vs the Strategic Restraint exhibited by previous governments. These strategies are either extolled or...

The Pinaka is a multi-barreled rocket launcher capable of firing twelve 210 mm rockets in 44 seconds at a range of 38 km. In 2015, an Extended Range Unguided Pinaka Rocket was fired to...

Dawn - Seventeen years after first banning militant groups, Pakistan is once again at a crossroads. (https://www.dawn.com/news/1468717/renewed-campaign) If in seventeen years a nation does not know that it took a wrong turn then, the likelihood of taking the...