DailyPost 2012 LOITERING MUNITIONS While the world was involved in the battle against COVID-19, there was another war that was being fought towards late 2020. This was the battle in the South Caucasus, Nagorno-Karabakh to be precise, this was the battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This battle gave a glimpse of the future. A jingoism […]
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DailyPost 1987 VISTAS OF WAR The physical component of war is certainly the most nerve wrenching, the pictures go deep into the well-established and prudent psyche of no war. The coordinated efforts of army, air force and the navy have been delivering victories based on the strategy laid out for the same. Losses; human and material
DailyPost 1953 PEGASUS – A WEAPON FOR A DIFFERENT WAR Journalists and news organizations can do yeomen service to the world by opening our eyes to the wheeling dealing, which happens in the name of statecraft, diplomacy and internal security. They also give us a peep into the world’s underbelly, which is greasy and is kept
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DailyPost 1918 THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT The creation of nation states with the sine qua non of sovereignty and territorial integrity marked a paradigm shift in the governance of the world. Political thought seems to have declared it as the ultimate political construct. That is how we govern ourselves today. If we add self-determination as the
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DailyPost 1838 PANDORA PAPERS The genesis of the name for this cache of documents remains unknown. Pandora’s box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod’s Works and Days. In reality this explanation is right; “A present which seems valuable but which in reality is a curse.” The recently
DailyPost 1826 EVERGRANDE IMBROGLIO – IS IT MAN MADE? When economic actions over a long period of time take place in a non-economic manner, with all stakeholders and the regulators closing their eyes, hoping for the economic bubble to last forever, crisis of this nature happens. The Lehman Brothers collapse, it seems has not taught anything
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DailyPost 1824 EVERGRANDE It has different names in different parts of the world, the financial mess which it ends up in, remains the same. Now it is Evergrande of the famed Shenzhen city in China, famed for the super Silicon Valley pace of digital existence. In 2008 in the US, it was Lehman Brothers facing an
DailyPost 1803 THE KABUL STORY – POLITICAL PROMISES & DATABASES The world had thought that Afghanistan had changed. Two decades of intensive act of building / rebuilding of every element of human existence inclusive creating democracy seems to be happening as planned. The visuals and the actions on the face of it displayed so. The
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DailyPost 1800 THE FALL OF AN IDEA The biggest tragedy of the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban is not just the mayhem, anarchy and a humanitarian crisis but more important is the fall of an idea. *The idea that the comity of nations can make their thought process prevail over the rogue elements of
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DailyPost 1789 THEY ALSO SERVE WHO WAIT & WATCH! The world looks aghast to watch what has been happening in Afghanistan in the last few days. The creation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan puts a seal on the patience the world has to watch anything unfolding. They also serve who wait and watch seems to
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DailyPost 1787 DESCENT INTO CHAOS! It could not have been more prophetic. Ahmed Rashid authored a book Descent Into Chaos in 2008. The theme of the book was ”How the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.” Thirteen years down the line, with the Taliban taking over levers of power
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