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Mariupol

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

The Russo-Ukraine War 2022 has clearly indicated that warfare is changing at dramatic rate and scope and historical similarities might not provide any guidance to the future ones. Our experience of past wars would be divorced from realities of 21st C....

May 14, 2022 National Security and Strategic Studies , Defence , Article , Ukraine , PGMs , Human Rights , Mariupol , battlespace , logistics planning , political strategy , tanks

Military Situation in Ukraine

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

Join Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, (Retd) and Shashank Sharma for a discussion on the operational and tactical aspects of the military situation as the Russian special military operation launched against Ukraine on 24 Feb 22 enter....

April 23, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Crimea , Podcast , Military operations , Ukraine Crisis , Black Sea , Mariupol , Russo-Ukraine conflict , Kherson , Kyiv , Donbass , Moskuva

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

Russo-Ukraine Conflict - View from the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean

Shashank Sharma Article

Background On 24 Feb 2022, President Putin commenced a "special military operation" against Ukraine attacking airports and military headquarters. Tanks and troops rolled in from Russia, Russian-controlled Crimea and Belarus

March 17, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , NATO , Mediterranean Sea , Russian Navy , Crimea , Naval Strategy , Ukraine Crisis , Black Sea , Black Sea fleet , Baltic Sea , Odessa , Mariupol , Sea of Azov , Sevastapol , Bosphorous straits , Dardanelles straits , Turkish straits , Tartus , Kalibr cruise missile , Blockade , naval marines , Snake Island , Amphibious operation , Marines , Kaliningrad enclave