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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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10 THINGS I LEARNT TODAY (01 AUG 22)

 

Pic Courtesy: Pond5

  1. The first ship carrying Ukrainian grain exports has set off from the port of Odessa for Lebanon as part of the deal negotiated between Russia and Ukraine.

 

Comments: A good beginning – The process will ease off some of the world food crisis.

 

  1. Russian missile strikes on Mykolaiv, a port city in the south, killed Oleksiy Vadatursky, one of Ukraine’s richest businessmen and biggest exporters of grain.

 

Comments: Is there a message or connection between the agreement to allow the export of grain and this act?

 

  1. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of America’s House of Representatives, landed in Singapore, the first stop of a tour through Asia. Her delegation also plans to visit Malaysia, South Korea, and Japan. There was no mention of whether she would travel to Taiwan as initially suggested. Chinese officials earlier threatened “strong and resolute measures” should she stop on the island. If she does, Ms Pelosi would be the highest-ranking American official to visit Taiwan since 1997.

 

Comments:

  • China’s strongly worded threat – “those who play with fire, perish by it”.
  • Wait and watch for–
    • Who will blink?
    • Brinkmanship will go up to what extent?
    • Is it a Chinese red line?

 

  1. On Russian Navy day President Vladimir Putin marked by announcing that the navy would receive the “formidable” hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles in the coming months.

 

Comments: Hypersonic weapons have arrived, heralding a paradigm shift in warfare (Sply Air Defence and Ballistic Missile Defence).

 

  1. According to reports, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China is actively recruiting Tibetans and Nepalis from the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) who are well-versed in Hindi for both interpretation and intelligence-gathering jobs along the Line of Actual Control. Officials were also stated to have visited colleges and universities in China in a large-scale drive to search for Hindi graduates for recruitment for LAC jobs in the PLA.

 

Comments: For sure, Hindi-speaking personnel must be present in all the Sino – Indian meetings.

 

  1. It is reported that China has approx. 7,000 active Tibetan military personnel in its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). Around 1,000 Tibetans, including about 100 females, are enrolled in Special Tibetan Army Units.

 

Comments: Part of the process to involve few of the Tibetans in the mainstream and to change the demography of TAR.

 

  1. Chinese manufacturing company has set up its office in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). This company has been renovating and building new bunkers for the Pakistan Army. Chinese companies have done construction in PoK in the past too, but this is the first time such a project has been taken up along the LoC.

 

Comments:

  • Shameful – Pakistan is not capable of making even bunkers.
  • The presence of China in the POK is increasing.
  • The bilateral issue of POK is gradually becoming Trilateral.

 

  1. China’s People’s Liberation Army recently tested an advanced Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) at an altitude of more than 5,300 metres in the Xinjiang Region close to the Indian border that could hit critical Indian military bases. China’s state media reported that China is likely to deploy the PHL-16 MLRS on the Sino-Indian border.

 

Comments: Classic example of Strategic signalling and strategic coercion.

 

  1. China’s PLA has carried out a military exercise with Z-10 attack helicopters for the first time over Pangong Lake.

 

Comments: The air activity along the LOC is gradually changing. Aerial muscle flexing is becoming a part of the border incursions and standoffs.

 

  1. Myanmar’s military junta extended a state of emergency across the country by six months. The regime has ruled with emergency powers since overthrowing the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.

 

Comments: It is a wait and watch for the return of democracy. Myanmar is important for India.

 

Bottom Line

 There is never a dull moment in the world.

 

Question

Will nations ever stop fighting with each other?

 

 

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Lessons: Air War in Ukraine

 

Being prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

– George Washington

 

Russia – Ukraine war has entered the fourth month, with no end in sight. This war has affected every aspect of warfare and international engagement. The war has brought into focus the issues related to the new emerging world order, multilateralism, collective security, nuclear deterrence, economic sanctions, information warfare, and food & energy security.

 

Russia has not used the full potential of its military power against Ukraine. Question intriguing the military analysts is why the airpower has not been utilised fully and freely. While Russia is being criticised by the West for its lack of capabilities, another school of thought is that Russia is following a delicate approach towards the use of force and ensuing destruction. While the world is eagerly waiting for the end of this conflict, a lot of lessons are emerging from the prevailing situation.

 

General Aspects of war

 

Objectives. Officially, Russia stated her objectives of the “special military operation” as “demilitarisation, denazification and assurance about the neutral status of Ukraine (i.e. not joining NATO)”. The operations were justified by Russia, citing help call from the Donbas region for its liberation from Ukraine. In retrospect, it appears the undeclared objective was also to consolidate the Russian hold on Crimea.

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