PM Modi’s Visit to DC & Reality of US-India “Partnership”
Prime Minister Modi (pronounced Mo-thee) is going to visit Washington DC on Monday to meet President Trump. It is an important visit for India but not ne...
Category: Focus
Why Does India Tend to Collapse – Saga Continues
The more things change, the more they stay the same – this old dictum applies to today’s Indian cricket team. Remember the glorious partnersh...
A Father’s Day Movie & A Geopolitical Beginning!
The past 15 years have been all China with India being a sorry laggard. Perhaps that’s why the recent success of India has not really registered i...
A Trigger for Offense by Republicans?
Attorney General Sessions did a good job defending himself in his testimony before the US Senate. He exuded outraged passion and showed gumption, two cha...
Kudos to CNN’s Alisyn Camerota & Shame on Huff Post, Wash Post
Since the inception of this Blog in 2008, we have been one of the most determined & tenacious voices against expressed contempt of Indian Culture &am...
Consistent, Determined “Annihilation & Humiliation” Strategy against ISIS – Secretary James Mattis
The biggest mistake in a war between two different cultures is lack of understanding of the enemy and a consequent supremacist attitude towards the enemy...
Reflections on President Trump’s Visit to Saudi Arabia
The visuals were magnificent. A stunningly opulent cavernous hall for President Trump to address the invitees. Heads of State of some 58 Muslim countries...
American Civil Wars & Insurrections – Lessons Forgotten or Relearned?
Remember the American Civil War – America’s bloodiest war & greatest crisis of morality & will? Abraham Lincoln is now universally re...
A US Withdrawal from Afghanistan? The Model Works
About seven months ago, we asked: “Remember how the US presence in the Vietnam war ended? In a final exit via helicopters just before the North Vi...
Trump-Comey – The Central Question
Among all the sturm & drang of this week’s Trump-Comey episode, the central point was postulated by Ian Bremmer of Eurasia Group on Thursday: i...