R Prasannan

A smart strategist is also a sharp-eyed quartermaster. Arthur Wellesley was one such. In this 19th episode of ‘Tactics and Tacticians' on the Battle of Assaye, we find out how his sharp eye found a crossing point in a flooded river which no one knew about.

Babar arrived in Panipat with just 15,000 troops, against a massive force of more than 40,000 at the disposal of Ibrahim Lodhi

Xi Jinping invoked Thucydides, a fifth century BC Athenian naval commander and historian, whose account of the Peloponnesian War led to the theory that when a rising power seeks parity with an established power, it could lead to war

At times, unnerving the enemy with minimal force yields better results than killing him with massive force. Not only does it get you general goodwill, but also allows you to claim a clean victory. In this 21st instalment of 'Tactics and Tacticians', we look at how a neat surgical air strike on Dacca yielded India a clean victory in the 1971 war

Russia has strategically re-engaged with Afghanistan, appointing Zamir Kabulov, an envoy with deep expertise in the region, as its special representative

A few fig-leafed pedagogues have sought to clothe the four millennia-old dancing girl of Mohenjo-daro. A few textbook writers of NCERT, who thought her nakedness a national shame, made an attempt to mask her nakedness to the satvik class nine schoolboys and girls of Bharat varsha

Most countries don’t have citizenship cards, but then they don’t ask their people to prove their citizenship as frequently as we do

Sadly, our military seems to be losing the poetic touch. Look at how we are code naming ops and projects these days

India’s secular intellectual space will continue to draw its sustenance from the Leftist school

The alleged theft at Ram Mandir is a breach of the trust and faith that millions of devotees place in one of India’s holiest shrines.