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I replied to this on PDF, having gone there first after several days.

Saving it for later. Thanks. I haven't been on line for long durations for some days, running into weeks, now, but this is one of my favourite channels. The man makes so much sense. There is another i discovered recently, and am acquiring a nice little collection of meaningful military channels.

This is hilarious, considering the way the two nations - known for their adherence to the rule of law - have dealt with it. The border is normal until it comes to the territorial limit off Maine. After that, both countries start acting smart. Canada defines the maritime boundary as being the...

The hints are in the dates. 1911 was the Sun Yat-Sen revolution; 1937 was the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, that seagued into the Second World War, and that effectively gained China a seat on the Security Council. I'm not going to break my head deciphering the clues, as it is going to be...

It is really strange, really, really strange that you should mention this. On another forum (not PDF), the person you might have noticed who calls himself <SoulSpokesman> asked a question that erupted into a full-blown discussion very soon, about the differences between WWI and WWII. Somebody...

Point well made. On a diverging note, much of India-China discussion started, in real terms, from that period or immediately before.

Naya Daur? By Toutatis, you are verging on the anti-national! Imagine, I know somebody who knows the Naya Daur crowd!! You are toxic, you are lethal!!! No, much more, you are liberal.

This might be the finest piece of yours that I have read. I wish you could write a weekly blog taking us through Chinese history from 1949 onwards; nothing like a day journal, just your point of view of events that occurred. I wish you would concentrate on this area of deep insight, and...

LOL. They did. Go to Maharashtra and check the following: Number of outboard motor-boats in working condition; Number of outboard motors in working condition; Amount of petrol or diesel available; issued during the last 12 months; Number of patrols made by the staff; Number of staff...

I don't agree 100%, but he has made his point very well. About the reservations, Vikram Singh wrote at length in his memoirs about the influence of the imports lobby, and the extensive monetisation of the old boy network due to the monies flowing out of favourable imports decisions. Another...

Glad to listen to a genuine officer of the old school.

Old age. It happens to everyone. Wait another 48 years and see for yourself.

This may be exactly the opposite, as far as the recent developments in India are concerned. There is a good case for opposing the inheritance of the past and for eradicating these in favour of progressive elements. Secularism, incidentally, is precisely such a case. It is a combination of...

Ah, bliss. How nice to have really thinking people commenting; even the dissent is intelligent dissent.

That is if we take the wise, mature and balanced decision to build up all arms of our navy at roughly equal speed. To my unwise, immature, and hopelessly unbalanced point of view, we are making a huge mistake, giving aircraft carriers a bit, even if a small bit, of our mind-space long before we...

Yes, you are right, at the broad brush level, but these friction points relate to fishing, so directly connect to EEZ rights. But, as far as the big picture goes, you have a point.

Not really. This has been a point of friction now for some time. You may be right in claiming a link to a specific event, but the context has been there for a long time.

You are making a lot of sense. The final goal is the centralisation of everything within the PMO. Any student of international constitutional history will be able to trace the family similarity between the concentration of power being attempted here, in India, today, and the process that has...

The problem is that they had a central theme - the preservation of Muslim identity - and that morphed into the linked theme - only Pakistan can preserve Muslim identity, and only the Army can preserve Pakistan. Whatever we read now, and whatever we find our closest friends among educated and...

Dear Shiv. He goes on forever. Try to look up his self-published e-book on why Pakistan would quietly pop out of existence around the turn of the century. Bless his heart.