Celebrating Two years of Blogging with 300 posts

 

 

Topics Covered

 

Leadership, Motivation and Management
Decision making
Mental toughness
Earning respect
Good  leadership qualities and values
Science of Karma
Good working culture
Listening Skills
Be good feel good
Healthy working environment
importance of Tolerance
Lessons from Buddha
Difference between strength and courage
Lessons from rich and famous
Leadership lessons from Hollywood movies.
Shark in the tank theory of management
Car wheel theory of management
Aya Ram Gaya Ram syndrome – yes men.
Calculated Risks
Practical Leadership and management
Communication skills and body language
Lessons from Nanak
Being Responsible and Tolerant
Transferable Skills
Words of Wisdom
 

China

China’s Brain differently wired
China’s strategic thought
China’s military modernisation
China’s Defence industry
China – Pakistan Collusion
China – Art of deception
China: Kill Pigs List
China: Social score System
China: Active Defence Policy
China’s Joint Strategic support force (JSSF)
China – Joint Strategic Support Force.
Dealing with the Dragon
China’s grey zone operations
China: Flavours of military Reform
China: Pillars of Military Reform
China new diplomacy – drawing red lines in sand.
China – demographic analysis.
China through US Prism
China in South China Sea
China’s Military – Civil Fusion
PLAAF Analysis Strengths and weaknesses
Book review on China Airpower
Dealing with Dragon
Knowing China Better: lie flat and let it rot
Knowing China Better social life and customs
 

Geopolitics 

China
Pakistan – National security Policy, Turmoil
Afghanistan
India’s foreign policy
India’s neighbourhood
Quad
Indo – Russian relations
State of Airpower assets in Afghanistan
Indo – US relations
Afghanistan: Taliban runover
US-China shadow boxing over Taiwan
China spoiling Bhutan’s GNH.
South China sea
Gini Index and implications.
Multilateralism: Flexible Security Cooperation.
China Pak Collusivity
Collective Security
Sri Lanka Economic crisis: lessons and opportunity
Ukraine Conflict
Djibouti: Tug of war between USA and China
 

Air Power 

Airpower in Grey zone operations
Airpower in no war no peace situation
Air Power & Non-Kinetic warfare
Air Power in Multi-Domain warfare
Airpower in HADR ops and aid to civil authorities
Drone Threat the big picture
Fighter aircraft classifications by generations
Emerging Technologies and Air Defence
Air Power in Modern Day Warfare
S-400 SAM AD System
Combat Aviation
Changing nature of warfare
Air Defence operations
Air power concepts: Command / control the air, air supremacy, Air superiority & Favourable air situation.
 

Technology 

Hypersonics and hypersonic weapons
Technology and airpower
Future Trajectory of AI
Artificial intelligence
Unmanned Platforms and Swarms, Loyal wingman concept
AI and Fake News
AI: Digital twins and Surrogate models
 

Cyber Safety and Security 

Cyber warfare
Digital addiction
Economic Cyber Frauds
 

Space 

Space operations
Space warfare and organisation in India
Space-based ISR
 

Indian Air Force 

Capability development
Tejas and AMCA project
IAF role in HADR and aid to civil and other agencies
Network-centric operations
PLAAF and IAF comparative analysis
IAF Modernisation
Balakot Operations
Rafale induction and capability enhancement
S-400 Induction
Fire Power Demo: Ex Vayu Shakti
 

War and Warfare 

Types of war
Decoys and deception
Afghanistan Air Assets
Future Wars
warfare
Grey Zone Warfare
Classification of warfare into generations (Russian Thoughts)
Domains of warfare
C4ISR
Military Balance in the region
Ukraine War: Air Power aspects, a case of dog and the bone, Air superiority aspects, decoding Ukraine war
Operational Logistics
Lesser known facts about 1971the  War
Review of book on 1962 war
Review of book on 1965 war
India’s two-front challenge
Douhet theories
Duration of Conflict
Jasjit Singh on Airpower
Galwan stand off
Asymmetric Threat
Nuclear aspects revisited
Accelerating the paradigm Shift
National Security / Military Strategy
Urgent need for National Security Policy
Multilateralism: Relevance and changes
National Security Strategy
 

Military 

Military diplomacy
Military spending: trends and analysis.
Collusive threat and Deterrence: Air and Space Aspects
Integrated Capability Development.
Joint war game training systems
Fighter Pilot: Traits
Agni veer and Agnipath / Tour of duty / making best of the scheme
Andaman and Nicobar Command and Islands
Joint Operations and Joint man ship
 

Higher Defence Organisation 

Department of military affairs
Theaterisation
Air defence command
Civil-military fusion
 

Flight Safety 

Golden rules of safety
Importance of SOPs
A proactive approach to safety
Damage due to Bird Hits and Foreign Objects
Good safety Culture
 

Defence Industry 

Indigenous defence industry
HAL and DPSUs
Role of the private sector in defence production
Arms Transfer to Afghanistan
Defence Budget issues
Atmanirbharta
IAF and indigenisation
Indian Initiatives to promote self-reliance
 

Stories 

My tryst with HT-2 aircraft: The day god flew with me
The day I flew my dad’s car
Male Lake: Tale of two coursemates
Flying Tales

 

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71 Replies to “Celebrating Two years of Blogging with 300 posts”

  1. Such a wide range of interests and topics on which you have written and that to so methodically. You have broken the complexities with an easy explanation on some very professional air warfare aspects for the readership beyond the IAF. Your YouTube interviews have been segmented to reach specific area of interest by various links within the link.

    Looking forward to more and more! Congratulations on this prodigious output.

  2. Congrats on the second anniv of blogging sir. And wish a long innings of similarly informative, incise and topical blogs.

  3. Heartiest congratulations Anil Sir. Looking forward to have them more and more. They are meaningful and carry enormous wisdom for future geopolitical strategies. Regards Ranjan

  4. Heartiest congratulations sir. Tremendous grit, determination & hard work to start something new & make it a super success in no time. Very impressive & truly inspirational sir. Its only just begun…..Best wishes for a long & fruitful innings.
    Warmest regards
    Air Marshal M Singh

  5. Heartiest congratulations. This is indeed an enormous output and valuable Intellectual contribution for the benefit of academia in the Strategeic and Security space.
    Air Mshl N Verma (Retd)

  6. Congratulations Sir,

    The coverage has been very wide and varied
    Sheer diversity of Topics covered along with the personal perspective provides the reader an opportunity to analyse and deliberate on the core issues under discussion
    Air Cmde PS Sarin (Retd)

  7. Congratulations Sir,
    Compliments for sharing your knowledge and enriching people on complex and specialised issues of AirPower, global developments, warfare and on becoming good human beings.
    Gp Capt RK Narang (Retd)

    Warm Regards

  8. Remarkable feat 👍👏👏 heartiest congratulations.

    You have been blogging on vast range of subjects with very high quality content, often no nonsense, great story telling, easily digestible and also
    responding to comments promptly.

    Keep it up, really love your blogs
    Col GPS Kaushik (Retd)

  9. Wow! Air Mshl . 300 blogs in 700 odd days ……roughly churning out one every other day !!!!
    Only thing I want to say is :
    You are sharp
    You have a well oiled thinker
    You are well motivated
    You are loving the art of Blogging
    &
    Seeing the topics covered
    You are a well rounded , well researched and a passionate blogger .
    Keep up with your good work with credible & Solid Substance !!!
    General Salute !
    Capt Rajiv Batish

  10. Heartiest Congratulations
    I may not be commenting but have been reading all your blogs

    Wish you several more decades and tens of thousands of blogs.

    Best wishes and warm regards
    Admiral Lal (Retd)

  11. It’s a great achievement sir. U were literally at ur best at multiple occasions by showcasing ur literary prowess, stellar ingenuity with organic n holistic substance.
    Kudos n congratulations.
    Wish u many more articles n blogs encompassing comprehensive range of issues n deliberations.
    I wish u luck in all ur endeavours.
    Happy landings.

  12. Congratulations to you sir, great feat to achieve with exceptional consistency. Thank you sir for continuously enriching us with your experience and abundant knowledge.

    All the best sir, keep going and enlightening us.

  13. You always had the determination and endurance to Excell in what ever to put your mind to. A lot of hard work has gone into thos effort of yours and the outcome is fabulous 👌 👍. Heartiest congratulations, keep going.

  14. Heartiest Congratulations on the Stupendous achievement, Sir. You have covered wide gamut of topics with candor & candid manner, in your characteristic lucid style. All very best to scale 1k soon.
    Regards

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