Articles By Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd)
India: Arms Importer to Arms Exporter
By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Jun , 2022
“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in...
Donbas: Its Importance for Russia
By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd) | Date: 23 Apr , 2022
Angela Carter famously remarked “Language is power, life and instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation”. On December 26, 1991 USSR broke up into 15 nations as a...
Enhanced Weaponry on Russian Tanks In The Ukraine War
By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 Apr , 2022
Heinz Guderian’s quote “If the tanks succeed, then victory follows” seems to have changed irreversibly if the current Russian offensive into Ukraine which has entered the seventh week is...
Saudi Arabia and the Security Scars
By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd) | Date: 01 Apr , 2022
On 19-20 March 2022 the Houthi movement in Yemen which is Iran aligned, struck the oil facilities of Saudi Arabia in Yanbu, Jizan, Khamis Mushait and Dhahran Al-Janub sending shock waves globally...
Russia and its Quest for Gas Supremacy
By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 24 Mar , 2022
It is indeed ironical that Russia which is the world’s second largest natural gas producer with 669 billioncubic meters (bcm) is not a member of international Energy Agency (IEA) which has 31...
Why the Russia-Ukraine War 2022 has an Uncanny similarity with the Cuban...
By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Mar , 2022
The lyrics of Bon Jovi’s super hit song which he sung in 2010 “The more things change the more they stay the same” are based on the same phrase given by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, a...
Russia & USA: The War for Oil
By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 11 Mar , 2022
On 08 March 2022, USA banned Russian oil imports as part of various sanctions that it has levied on Russia in view of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war since 24 February 2022. Exactly two years ago...
Russia and the Importance of Black Sea
By: Lt Col JS Sodhi (Retd) | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 07 Mar , 2022
The quote of the British adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh in 1829 “For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade, whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world,...