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  ‘CEREBRAL WAR’ THE FIRST DIMENSION & THE FLYDUBAI HIJACK   “ Cerebral War is the first dimension of war, fought in the hidden dimension of cerebral space to target and control human thought, the source code empowering all human endeavours . ” – Col RS Sidhu   Backdrop The news of the attempted hijack on 29 September 2026 of Flydubai Dubai-Tel Aviv flight number FZ 1073 , a Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft with 173 passengers on board , that departed Dubai at 0705 AM GST, was immediately accompanied by insidious narratives on social media insinuating it as a ‘ false flag ’ operation by Israel, aimed to influence re-election of Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel in the forthcoming general elections to Knesset, the Israeli parliament. The above scenario follows a 21 st century pattern that first came into prominence post 9/11 terrorist acts of 2001 in the US, that was followed by social media insinuations alleging them to be covertly ma...
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  Akhand Bharat STRATEGIC REVIEW OF JANTAR MANTAR PROTESTS June – July 2026   “ The Jantar Mantar protests represent the complex kaleidoscope of an aspirational young generation’s dissatisfaction with geriatric political leadership, democratic realpolitik, and covert external intervention, against the alluring backdrop of an Akhand Bharat . ” – Col RS Sidhu   Backdrop India in its earlier avatar of ‘ Bharat ’ was governed by a hereditary monarchy. In this model of governance, the society norms flowed from the ruler, as may be averred from the vernacular paraphrase, “ Yatha Raja, Tatha Praja ” (As is the King, so are the people).   Today, India is a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic, with a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-linguistic, and multi-religious civil society. Virtuous political leadership is the key to maintain balance in such a factitious political environment.   However, in a democracy, where the reins of power a...
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  SPRINGING THE ‘THUCYDIDES TRAP’   “ In contentious times, analysing deeds and recognising patterns in key events is a surer way for an observer to timely deduce the likely turn of events. ” – Col RS Sidhu   ‘Thucydides Trap’ On 14 th of May 2026, the paramount leader of China, Xi Jinping during his Summit with POTUS Donald Trump in Beijing, used an interesting catchphrase by calling upon the two countries to transcend the ‘ Thucydides Trap ’ . The axiom ‘ Thucydides Trap ’, refers to the inevitability of war when the rise of a challenger threatens the supremacy of an established power. This expression is named after Greek historian Thucydides, who first propounded this principle in the context of geopolitical challenge by Athens to the supremacy of Sparta, resulting in the long drawn out Peloponnesian Wars in ancient Greece during the 5 th century BCE. By using this phrase in context of the adversarial relationship between China and the US, Xi Jinping ...
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