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  VELAPANTI DIARIES Musings On The Coming World Geopolitical Order “ The ‘apas’ (water) energies, and the outcome of the battle between the Old and the New Age US industry Moghuls for influence over the US ‘Deep State’, shall be the key factor in defining the contours of the coming world geopolitical order, and the rise of India.” – Col RS Sidhu   A Fair Warning These musings on the coming world order, are a dialectic mix of academic rigour buttressed with intuitive sensings! The Clash of Narratives & Ideologies Ideologies and accompanying narratives have long shaped human history. Competitive ideologies invariably give rise to war and strife, while narratives are intrinsic to their propagation and spread. Without an accompanying narrative, an ideology is destined to be confined within the bounds of the philosophic domain. It is the power of narrative, that strengthens the masses belief in own superiority, motivating and powering prolonged struggles, will...
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  REFLECTIONS 2024 & NEW YEAR GREETINGS 2025 “ When monumental realignment of geopolitical poles coincide with tectonic geomagnetic reversals, it is ‘time of revelation’. Thus read, it may be reasonably inferred that the ‘Brahmand’ (Heaven) conspires to destine, ‘ 2025 as the Year of the Omen ’ that shall set the velocity, course, and direction for the build-up towards the phenomenon of ‘Global Chaos’, boiling to explode around 2027 ! ” – Col RS Sidhu   Dear Readers, The dawn of 2024 found US, the leviathan of the West Bloc, enmeshed in the ‘ Chinese Chakravyuh ’ through Iran led proxies in the Levant region. This detracted US focus from its stated ‘pivot to the east’ to stalemate China in the maritime region of the South China Sea and Straits of Taiwan. The US unveiled a two prong riposte to outwit China. The first was to overtly align with Israel in destroying piecemeal, Iran supported militias that were dominant in the countries bordering the former. By the e...
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  CHINA’S ‘ SILENT ’ WAR FOR GLOBAL DOMINANCE “ The Chinese board game Weiqi gives unique insight into their theory of statecraft. The game employs abstract strategy to encircle the stones of the opponent. The essence of its play is on encirclement through positioning strategy, rather than on destroying the opposing pieces as in Chess. ” – Col RS Sidhu   Backdrop “ Of war, there is open war, concealed war, and silent war .” – Kautilya ka ‘Arthashastra ’ Kautilya aka Vishnugupta aka Chanakya, the author of ‘ Arthashastra ’, the 3 rd century BCE ancient treatise on statecraft, is perhaps the first military strategist and master practitioner of realpolitik to theorise on ‘ silent war ’. The ‘ Arthashastra’ describes the ‘ silent war ’ as that where a country while maintaining overt peace with its target state, recruit fifth columnist to engage in subversion, orchestrate information war to create violent discord and rift in the body polity, sow misinformation to ...
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  ‘ FOG OF WAR ’ & BOOBY TRAPS IN THE KILLING OF ISMAEL HANIYEH   “A General with ‘ winning ways ’ is one who is as proficient in the science and art of covering the battlefield with the ‘ fog of war ’ as also in piercing through this veil, while employing it as a key strategy to strike at the ‘ OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Action) Loop’ of the adversary.” – Col RS Sidhu   Backdrop “… An enemy should be destroyed without a trace .” - Chanakya Obfuscating the battlefield is a strategy as old as Mahabharat, where the Pandavas employed grey zone propaganda to spread the half-truth of ‘Ashwathama is dead’, to neutralise Guru Dronacharya, the leading general of the Kauravas army, and Krishan orchestrated a fake sunset to set the stage for Arjun to kill Jayadrath.    During World War II, the detailed planning and execution of Operation ‘ Overlord ’ to invade Nazi Germany occupied Europe, was matched by an equally meticulous deception plan codena...
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