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Sinai is a small peninsula  which is part of Egypt. It is mostly a desert with a few nomadic settlements. But it is the only source of oil for Egypt and as such has great economic importance. This desert is the scene of a battle between...

The old saying that the sins of the father are visited on the son is very true.  The unpardonable acts of Jwaharlal Nehru and successive governments after him of first enacting a special status for Kashmir and then doing nothing to integrate...

Legally Kashmir acceded to India when the ruler of Kashmir Maharajah Hari Singh signed the option to accede to India in 1947. Unfortunately misplaced zeal by the then Indian prime minister Jwaharlal Nehru saw India refer the case to the UNO. The...

One of the most tragic periods of Chinese history is the period when the last emperor of China Pu Yi appeared on the scene.  Pu Yi was an affable and nice man, but his fault was that he appeared on the scene when China was in turmoil and very...

I have been reading many articles and carried out studies on military history. Being an Alumnus of the Staff College at Wellington, military history is my forte. I have studied the great empires of the world and have concluded that right from...

Two quotations from two different leaders with diverse backgrounds are worth quoting. There is firstly, the famous quote by Mao tse Tung  that echoes around the world" Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun". The second is...

China and Tibet have had a relationship much longer than India with Tibet. India and Tibet never had any contact for close to 2000 years except for sporadic religious teachers who went from India to Tibet. In contrast Tibet for long periods was...

One of the great dichotomies of world history is that Islam produced a string of world conquerors,  while the Buddhists and Hindus have nothing to show in this field. Perhaps it's something to do with fanaticism that is bred by Islam in...

Some years ago, when I was attending a conference, a person who was much younger than me, told me something that had a telling effect on me for a very long time and, probably, to this day. Here is what he exactly said, " If you point out two...

While in service I visited the United States as a guest of the US Air Force. As I was sometimes a presiding officer of Court Martial in India ( being legally qualified) , I was interested how the US military law functions. One significant...