(Continued…)  The declassification of the Henderson Brooks Report will provide a balanced perspective of politico-bureaucratic strategic bankruptcy and phenomenal military strategic and tactical bungling at all levels. Neville Maxwell placed the “Henderson Brooks Report” on his website long ago. It provides deep insights into the failures of political and military leadership and helps shape current…

Today is significant as it marks the anniversary of the India-China War, which began on October 20, 1962. As a soldier who took part in the 1962 war with China, I do not look back at that conflict merely as a chapter in military history. It remains a painful reminder of a national debacle, one…

Is democracy under fierce assault from neo-political dynasties championing “regime change by revolution” under the banner of the I.N.D.I.A. Alliance? The question deserves serious consideration, particularly when political parties that claim to be fighting to save democracy are themselves frequently dominated by entrenched families. It is time to coin a new term for this phenomenon:…

Rahul Ghandy failed to garner the support of “We the People” through the “Hook” of minority-appeasement politics and the I.N.D.I.A. alliance in the 2024 Parliamentary elections, followed by defeats in Haryana (October 2024), Maharashtra (November 2024), Delhi (February 2025), Bihar (November 2025), and Assam, West Bengal and Puducherry in 2026. Only Kerala favoured the I.N.D.I.A….

India’s Economic Ascent: The Road to Global Leadership India’s economic rise is increasingly becoming a defining feature of the emerging global order. From being the world’s tenth-largest economy in 2015, India has climbed the global rankings and is projected to become the third-largest economy by 2031, according to the projections cited from the International Monetary…

Too much hype orchestrated by various agencies on the “Youth Dividend” (often referred to interchangeable with the “Demographic Dividend”? What is the reality? Undeniably, young people in India are not properly educated, up-skilled and integrated into the workforce. Let none suffer from illusions on the above count. The “Youth Dividend” is commonly viewed as the…

What did the recent Trump-Xi summit actually accomplish? Are geopolitics at a strategic crossroads or at an inflection point? How will the TROIKA powers – China, the U.S., and Russia – deliberations impact the strategic postures of middle powers, like India, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, among others? What are the future strategies for India…

China “Dream by 2049″ – Dominant Nation Status China’s “Dream by 2049,” is achieving dominant nation status, which is officially defined by Beijing as leading the world in “composite national strength and international influence”: Economic, Technology, military, and Social Power. The CCP views the post-WWII, Western-dominated international system as a historical anomaly that must be…

Napoleon Bonaparte’s prophetic cliché “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world”, made in 1814, has at last arrived before mankind. Xi Jinping himself used a version of the quote in a March 2014 speech in France (200 years later): “The lion that is China has awoken, but it is a…