Asia vs. Indo – Small Slip or Major Turn in the Pacific?
Any one who has even superficially followed US-India relations knows that this relationship follows a 2-steps forward, 1-step backward path. US-India rel...
Category: History
Thanksgiving 2020
What a year this has been? But it could have been much worse & left the future far more cloudy than it is now at this Thanksgiving time. The CoronaV...
The Election – Ian Bremmer & Minorities
Remember the first debate between President Obama & Governor Mitt Romney in 2012? No one had expected Romney to do that well against President Obama....
China re Ladakh – Second Shoe Drops; Smokescreen lifted
From the beginning of this summer’s conflict between China & India, we have been convinced that the real issue is far more strategic than a tac...
President Trump Post-Covid; Nancy Pelosi as Bob Alexander?
Was any drug or its maker more aptly named than Regeneron? Ever? Remember the shock we all felt just a week ago upon finding out that President Trump was...
President Trump & Covid
It was a sudden & absolute shock to hear about President Trump’s positive covid test on Friday morning. True to form, he told the American peop...
China of 2020 vs. China of 2016 – Xi Caught In A Trumodi Bind?
Remember the China of 2016! No one doubted that it was a major power on its way to becoming a global superpower with the largest economy on earth & a...
Will Never Forget
We can recall virtually every place we were on that morning of September 11, 2001; where we were when we heard about the first plane hitting the World Tr...
Soldiers at the Top of the World – Think of Them
As we remembered 9/11 on the morning of September 11, 2001, we saw the following tweet: d-atis@detresfa_ Sep 11 – #IndianArmy high altitude maneuve...
Doing “a China” to China in Ladakh – India’s “Less Talk, More Action”
1.This week in Ladakh As Shiv Aroor of India Today tweeted this week, Shiv Aroor@ShivAroor – Last weekend, something changed in Ladakh. The Indian...