Valleys and Valour

  US DILEMMA OVER UKRAINE CRISIS & GLOBAL GEOPOLITICAL POWER SHIFT   “On the global stage, words of dominant geopolitical powers may or may not reflect their true resolve and capabilities. But their actions during crucial geopolitical power plays are strongly indicative of their intent and capabilities, or lack of them.” – Veteran Col RS Sidhu   Backdrop To understand Ukraine one should grasp the two truisms of US polity. First, US is a nation constantly in search of an enemy. Second, is the presence of influential policy lobbyists who are the main operators of the levers driving its foreign policy. In the eight decades since the 1940s, US has engaged in near continuous ideological conflict and warfare world-wide, well beyond its sovereign borders, to safeguard its perceived geopolitical interests. Its conflict with communist ideology led it to two major military interventions. The Korean war from 1950 – 53, and the Vietnam war from 1955 – 1975. The collapse of the Soviet Union in

  OCCULT AND TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN ARMED FORCES   ‘ To sense a future possibility or induce a future reality are two sides of the same occult coin, and to differentiate the two is beyond the rational perception of an uninitiated observer .’ -           Veteran Col RS Sidhu The Battlefield Science The scientific principles behind application of force on a battlefield are best explained by Richard E Simpkin in his books ‘Red Armour’ and ‘Deep Battle’, wherein he invokes the formulae of mass x velocity to generate desired momentum to overcome an X amount of static mass of an enemy, or employing fulcrum to leverage own energy while retarding enemy momentum, and so on. However, applying these scientific principles is an art, as there are intangible forces too, acting on the battlefield. They need to be understood and factored to successfully accomplish the task at hand. Collective consciousness of the opposing combatants is one such intangible force. Simpkin paraphrases it as