Background We are poised at the threshold of yet another generational shift in technology which has the potential to change long-held fundamentals in commerce, intelligence, military affairs and...
The Impact of History- The Generational Syndrome Generational Syndrome has deeply influenced the political history of the Middle East in the last 100 years. Taking the end of WW 2 as a start point,...
Background China never attempted to conceal its ambitions for technological pre-eminence. It took its cue from the US, the reigning power and its erstwhile mentor. Discarding Mao’s adage that ‘...
Revolution 6: Security After the 2ndWorld War and the creation of the United Nations, in 1945, the world has avoided ‘Total War’, as interpreted by the Prussian General Carl Von Clausewitz...
What will the Future Look Like? I woke up one morning in 2119, some 100 years from now. I was lying alone on the pristine beach of Andamans & Nicobar Islands. Coconut trees swayed in the breeze...
Background The situation in India's North East is consequential to both its history and geography. The entry of the British into the region in the 1820s was in response to a request from the Ahom...
Background The progenitor of the artificial intelligence (AI) enabled deep fake is a technique called Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). A complex system of feeding data to GAN works on two...
In this second paper of the series, we continue to describe current operational realities in the form of scenarios and then attempt to describe those same scenarios in the future, after the...
How will wars of the future be fought? To answer that question, one needs to look into the future. But, how does one look into (predict) the future? There are two schools of thought for predicting...
A flurry of RTI applications by activists recently raised questions on the electoral bond scheme in India. This scheme was introduced during the budget of 2017. The electoral bonds is a promissory note akin to a banknote that is payable to the bearer on demand and is free of interest. It can be purchased at select State Bank of India branches, by any citizen of India or a body incorporated in India. The bond has to be encashed within 14 days by the political party. The donors are anonymous to ensure...
The recent political shenanigans in Maharashtra can potentially be an inflection point in the increasingly unipolar politics of India. Since the 2014 general elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party had firmly established itself the primary pole of Indian politics just as the Congress Party was up until the 1980s. While the party did power in several state elections since, but romped home with a bigger majority in 2019. In Maharashtra too, it should have been in power having won a comfortable if slightly reduced...
BackgroundWe are poised at the threshold of yet another generational shift in technology which has the potential to change long-held fundamentals in commerce, intelligence, military affairs and strategic balance of power. Since 2013, scientists have been working on processors using quantum physics for superpositioning and entanglement that could process more values simultaneously.While a...
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