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The Russia-Ukraine War 2022: A Point of No Return?

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

On 24 February 2022, President Vladimir Putin announced ‘special military operation,’ the beginning of land, sea, and air offensive against Ukraine. The Western Pundits had forecast that the war under the onslaught of Russian famed military and t....

September 28, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , Russia , Nuclear , Referendum , Ukraine , EU , Donetsk , Luhansk , Donbas

Russo-Ukraine War 2022: Sifting the Maze of Russian Political Policy and Military Strategy

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

The best teacher of war is war itself! With a month behind us of the Russo-Ukraine war, it is imperative to rationalise and focus on the war itself, without referral to logic behind the war, the global geopolitics and weaponisation of economics and g....

March 30, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , US , Russia , Ukraine , Crimea , Military Strategy , Donetsk , Luhansk , Mariupol , Azove Battalion , Kherson , political policy

The Failed Epitaph (!) of Conventional War: Russo-Ukrainian War 2022

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Many a scholar and thinker had penned the epitaph of conventional wars as witnessed in the 20th Century. New formulations of grey zone and hybrid war, and the era of multi-domain cyber, space and informational wars had been unveiled. Yet, all too oft....

March 05, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Russia , Ukraine , Cyber Attack , Belarus , Air attacks , conventional operations , Donetsk , Luhansk