From Pathankot to Pulwama, from Pahalgam to Kishtwar, a disturbing pattern keeps repeating itself. The question that now demands serious attention is whether India has formally adopted false flag operations as a central pillar of its strategic doctrine against Pakistan. The ongoing situation in Kishtwar offers a textbook illustration of this pattern. For the fifth […]
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Specious Invocation of the Monroe Doctrine
“Look there, Sancho Panza, where thirty or forty hulking giants appear, whom I intend to do battle with and slay.” – (Don Quixote) Part 1, Chapter VIII There appears to be no method to the madness pertaining the pronouncements of the Trump administration in ostensibly likening its policy ideation and decision-making concerning the Western Hemisphere […]
America Falls Victim to Its Own Pre-Emptive Doctrine
The doctrine of preventive and pre-emptive strike, once defended as a tool to neutralise danger, has instead evolved into one of the most destabilising forces of the modern era. It was misused in Iraq, misapplied in Afghanistan, refined by Israel across the Middle East, and has now begun reshaping U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere […]
Doctrine, policy, and strategy: FATF black list and US Entity list, do they matter?
Lists are nothing new. For years, they have been used to enumerate one thing or the other. All esteemed publications use them. Fortune, Time, Forbes – you name it. Recently, there have been two lists that are the talk of the town. The FATF list and the Entity list! Being on the FATF grey list […]
Doctrine, policy, and strategy: Could we have saved the Data Darbar bombing victims?
The latest bombing at Data Darbar has at-least confirmed one notion. That unless drastic national security enhancements are made, this act of terrorism will not be the last! This is where the two largest religious thoughts, Deoband and Sufi, clashed. The terrorists achieved multiple ends by striking one of the holiest symbols in Sufism in […]
Doctrine, policy, and strategy: watch out ik – the electorate is thinking differently!
Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution states that the president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient”. Informally, this has been the going practice – off and on – for […]
Understanding Modi’s defence doctrine
On February 14, a convoy of Indian Central Reserve Police Force was attacked on Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Pulwama district of Occupied Kashmir. As many as 40 CRPF personnel were killed in the attack. Government leaders and many people in Pakistan condemned the attack. However, the Indian government chose to make it the justification for […]