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Ashay Naik's lecture on his book Natural Enmity, a commentary on the first section of the Panchatantra.

https://satyanrtam.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... ncatantra/

Kaushal would have loved to read this lecture!

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Link: https://youtu.be/chffiYa1bpc?si=_S0taHkcKqH2gSR0

A French point of view

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,"Game theory suggests that when key players are constrained, a third party—here, Ukraine—gains leverage."

Look at the Pahalgam terrorist attack as India and China are being constrained along the LAC from 2020-2024.

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I have seen other signs like pushing for Pakistan stance in SCO and rumors of not attending BRICS meeting at Rio.

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Link: https://nypost.com/2025/06/28/opinion/i ... s-way-out/

Speculation that XJP will be eased out. The writer points to many indirect references that indicate reduction of power

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AdityaG posted on Twitter the strike on LeT and JeM bldg.

https://x.com/Aditya_G_Social/status/19 ... iqIVQ&s=19

The pock marks indicate the warhead had pellets. Could be the Penetration cum blast warheads.

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John Spencer of West Point on what is strategy

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Prem, Don't know the objective for those games. Can't be benign.
Two exfarts are Christopher Clary and our friend Unfair.

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Whatsapp forward: Several waves of destructive assaults unleashed by the Indian military on Pakistan’s air defence system and its prestigious military airfields between 2.30 am and 12.30 pm on May 10 as part of Operation Sindoor forced Pakistan to sue for peace, it has now emerged. The precision str...

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One of the reasons why munna was needed by the US... The decision to bomb Iran was made in March 7,2025, before Operation Sindoor started. According to Marco Rubio, the decision to bomb Iran was made on March 7, 2025 at the latest, when Trump sent an ultimatum letter to the Ayatollah. https://twitt...

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One big takeaway from the Israel fight since the 7th October attack by Hamas is they systematically destroyed Iranian proxies and finally went for Iran itself. Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Assad led Baath in Syria, Houthis, and finally Iran. India needs to use chatur upaya and take care of C...

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A short overview, with some extracts from the proclamation can be find here https://thecommunemag.com/jambutheevu-proclamation-when-marudhu-pandiar-brothers-declared-independence-from-british-56-years-before-the-1857-war-of-independence The main source material is on archive.org https://archive.org...

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One big takeaway from the Israel fight since the 7th October attack by Hamas is they systematically destroyed Iranian proxies and finally went for Iran itself. Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Assad led Baath in Syria, Houthis, and finally Iran. India needs to use chatur upaya and take care of C...

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IDRW reports on foreign interest in Operation Sindoor ordnance.

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Amber G. wrote: ↑22 Jun 2025 03:22 Pakistan Field Marshal Munir, FM Dar meets Turkish President Erdogan on the sidelines of OIC Foreign ministers meet

Need to analyze this post WH lunch meeting in Strat Forum

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I have been following India - China relations over the past decade but never in any depth to master the nuances. From my surface level perspective it seems to me that never - in recent memory at least- has Beijing come out so openly, blatantly and aggressively in support of Pakistan as in the last ...

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SSridhar wrote: ↑09 Jun 2025 22:33 Xi's disappearance happens regularly. I do not read anything into it at all, even if it were true.

However the news of the churn is interesting.

All is not well in Beijing.

We are seeing glimpses of inner tussle.
It behoves us to analyze. We maybe wrong but the process helps sharpen the mind.

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Dr Sriparna Pathak wrote on Trump visa bans

Brain drain or Global Gain?

https://archive.is/2025.06.20-095806/ht ... 00283.html

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AmberG, Thank you.

Meanwhile X has a post on the status of the RYK base by bishwa!

https://x.com/bishwa55900127/status/1935713543979958590

RYK still in ICU

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For completeness here is a French report on Operation Sindoor carried by IDRW. Sorry I don't know how to post the text. My opinion is French are claiming more than due to them. For instance are Meteors integrated with Rafale? The SCALP and Hammer were used for striking the terrorist camps. Not the a...

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https://www.rfi.fr/fr/asie-pacifique/20250617-opération-sindoor-le-succès-aérien-de-l-inde-passé-sous-silence Operation Sindoor: India's air success passed over in silence From Google translate: It must have moved in flight! ", underlines the general of the French Air Force Bruno Mignot, "...

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There are discussions in online forums that 6 F-16s belonging to US were shaheed in Bholari. These were for attacking Iran's new capital and were to be left behind for Fizzleya. They are unmarked, also known as white-labeled.

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Hindustan Times report on Operation Sindoor.
Worth posting in full.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... 15417.html

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India to commission the first ship of the Fast Shallow Water Craft, INS Arnala.

https://x.com/rajatpTOI/status/19311841 ... IUVEg&s=19

Note the displacement of 1490 tons!

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Today marks one month after Operation Sindoor.

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Operational Art in the Indian Context Operational Art in the Indian Context Author: Lieutenant General VK Kapoor, PVSM (Retd) Period: October 2003 - December 2003 Operational Art in the Indian Context Lieutenant General VK Kapoor, PVSM (Retd) Introduction A war fighting doctrine evolved by any nati...

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DRDO has selected two suppliers to make four variants of their shell. Trials are in November.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/zeenews.in ... 4.html/amp

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Madhu, Thank you. Truly appreciate it.

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Has anybody connected this recent conflict with Gen Paddy's book that he wrote in 2004, 'India Checkmates America'? It is eerily prescient and even mentions Akash at one place. Of course the antagonist in the book is the US but the scenario with India intercepting all its missiles is incredibly sim...

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vaibhavs wrote: ↑02 Jun 2025 22:55 So Shiv Aroor stated that as per a briefing received by IAF, he was told of 9 confirmed aircraft losses of PAF. Need to wait for the presser.

https://x.com/ShivAroor/status/1929556231590428923

Was the briefing by IAF or received by IAF?

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RCase, Gen GD Bakshi is right. Those were targets and got hit. What was stored is Pakistani perfidy.
They could have included them in list of nuclear sites but didn't.

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A blast from the past.
Al Guardian writes about India's new trust with destiny on the results of 2014 election that made Narendra Modi ji the Prime Minister. It has come true.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2014 ... on-destiny

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Folks, CDS said what he said in the interests of the country. Case closed. Not worth going into the details. Bottom line: ... Thank you for that positive (and factual) summary. Breath of fresh air. For a moment there, reading all the wailing and moaning on the forum, I thought India had lost the wa...

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Transcript of CDS Gen Chauhan's speech at Shangri-La Dialogue.

https://www.iiss.org/globalassets/media ... ivered.pdf

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Gen Chauhan speaks at Shangri la dialogue

https://bharatshakti.in/non-contact-mul ... s-chauhan/

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Folks, CDS said what he said in the interests of the country. Case closed. Not worth going into the details. Bottom line: no six planes shot down. Down means unavailable. No Rafale was shot down. 9 terrorist markaz hit badly 11 Fizzleya facilities hit: 8 airbases and 3 radar sites Fizzleya fizzled a...

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Leonard or anyone,
Can you make a transparency of the before and after pictures of the Murid strike and superimpose them?
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Operation Sindoor showed that India has been at the forefront of developing and deploying weaponry, unlike the popular perception. The Integrated air defence environment that stopped the multiple Pakistan air attacks is one testament to GOI silent activity. All the airbases were hit, with the majori...

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I think eventually we will find that China gave the domestic version of PL-15 missile. Not the export version.

After the drawdown in Galwan logically they would rearm Pakistan .

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Any progress on this requirement?

https://indiandefenseanalysis.wordpress ... ket-sb-gr/

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