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Lends itself quite well to contested deterrence from Vietnam and Indonesia to make a good larger arc around SCS to PLAN's available envelope currently. Lets hope this gets the ball rolling more in South East Asia SCS region.

Well going back to napoleonic wars....that era was way different as trade was more mercantile (i.e not voluntary at all) w.r.t BEIC etc It was based on extractive colonial processes and ideology....i.e huge one-way levers/gradients set forcefully. Today though, one fundamentally has to know...

I remember Gretna first coming up (eons ago when I was in school) as it was easier to get married in Scotland back in the day....so English young couples (under age 21 iirc) people would hop over to get married there as they couldnt back in England. heh. Hope you having/had a good time there...

Each of the 3 batteries will have two launchers. From WSJ: Each battery comprises two missile launchers, a radar and a command-and-control center, and can fire two missiles within 10 seconds, one of the Indian officials said, adding that a contract was expected to be signed this month So with...

Akash-NG SAM could also be another item. Fingers crossed bro: https://idrw.org/why-vietnam-was-monitoring-akash-ng-program-since-its-inception/

It depends (in the strict Naval convention in use these days) much more on endurance (point 3's expected mission parameters) than strict tonnage....to better delineate what is a corvette vs frigate. These vary a bit from navy to navy (given each country's size, territorial water, coastline...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/finance/credit-offtake-from-scheduled-commercial-banks-to-msme-sectors-surge-cmie/articleshow/88875070.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Fairly good summary of the last few scores of pages here: Turkey is one of the largest economies in the world and was up until recently growing rapidly every year. Why is it now driving itself into a hyperinflation crisis?

Boils down to knowing what you are good at and is it worth exchanging stuff for what others are good at. UK has long been a sea power and trading nation across those seas (marred unfortunately by the colonialism as well). It ought to have leadership class that is proficient in analysing and...

Consider Pakistan's national savings are 50% offshored (20 billion at home, 20 billion among Pakistanis living outside) i.e the extremely low base of the domestic saving/investment causing this kind of obscene ratio....leading to single digit capital formation. The data shows 20 years ago, this...

Heh...

https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2022-01-13/india-britain-launching-talks-on-free-trade-deal India and Britain have launched talks on a free trade deal that is expected to boost bilateral trade by billions of dollars in one of the most ambitious negotiations after Brexit. By...

Finally got around to watching it, guy almost word for word says what i've been musing/murmuring for the last few years. In any case there are a million and one problems India has to deal with and make better at home. Pakistan establishment is a perpetual "pay attention to me" sociopathic...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/isro-successfully-conducts-cryo-engine-test-for-gaganyaan-rocket/articleshow/88861681.cms NEW DELHI: Achieving another milestone in its ongoing Gaganyaan programme, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Wednesday successfully conducted the...

A new chairman has also been appointed: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/eminent-rocket-scientist-somanath-appointed-isro-chairman/article38258497.ece