Lieutenant General P R Shankar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC is a retired Gunner officer . He served in the Indian Army for four decades. He retired as the Director General of Artillery. Currently he is a Professor of Practice in the Aerospace Department of IIT Madras
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A meaningful webinar on how Trump is shaping the world disorder! He is destroying the existent rules based world order based on international institutions. It is being replaced with disorder based on isolation and deglobalistaion. Each country has to look out for itself. There are no single set of rules which will guide us in […]
14.3.2025 04:00THE NEW WORLD ACCORDING TO TRUMPHad two wonderful discussions with Mr John Helmer and Brig Arun Sahgal on the Russia Ukraine War. The first was all about to find if there is a basic matrix which can be found on which peace can be established. The second discussion outlines the twist and turns in achieving some kind of a ceasefire, […]
13.3.2025 06:52RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR : THE TWISTS AND TURNS OF PEACEThe train hijack by BLA is tactically sophisticated and brilliant. Strategically it has brought the Baluch issue to a head in Pakistan. Increasingly, the separatist movement fuelled by the disaffection of the people is proving to be beyond the weak Pakistani state. Will Baluchistan secede from hereon? BALUCHISTAN CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT PAKISTAN. CAN PAKISTAN SURVIVE […]
13.3.2025 02:16THE TRAIN HIJACK TO SECESSION OF BALUCHISTANWhat are the lessons that can be drawn from the 1971 India Pakistan war which the Russians could have applied in the Ukraine war? This was the question which triggered this analysis. There are eerie similarities between these wars. Political objectives, planning considerations, preparation, training , soldiery, weather, terrain and more are comparable. While there were many things […]
11.3.2025 00:44UKRAINE AND BANGLADESH WARS : A POLITICO MILITARY COMPARISONAn analysis of China’s current Two Sessions indicates that it is bereft of new ideas. China’s GDP target ambitious. It can be achieved only through heavy state spending like before. The results will also be like before. A GDP without ROI! Further its weak stimuli to spur consumption is not working. Global conditions are also […]
9.3.2025 03:03China’s Two Sessions : An AnalysisHistorically Germany has been the powerhouse of Europe and logically it should have driven the process to end the Ukraine war. However that is not happening as the German economy is under strain and the country is seeking is its own recovery. The recent elections in Germany have thrown up results far different from the […]
4.3.2025 01:35GERMANY : ELECTIONS AND OUTCOMESThe Trump-Zelensky blowout made good TV news. However it has brought to fore many issues of the emerging global order. Maj Gen Rajiv Narayanan (R) and I discussed various aspect of this blowout and its global impact. It is clear that USA wants to end this war at the earliest and focus on China. Europe […]
3.3.2025 01:49Beyond The Trump Zelensky Blowout<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>R&AW has been doing this for a long time now. O have worked for one such concern dealing with China & MSS. How effective the output was could not be assessed. Most such contracts were farmed out to privileged individuals for considerations far divorced from Intelligence & national security. After a year or so I stopped my association with them. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
2.3.2025 16:21Comment on Corporatisation Of Intelligence by B R NairA very interesting topic for me...not sure I am qualified enough but would like to engage with them. One of the companies I sent my resume to before returning to Bharat was RAW !!
2.3.2025 06:21Comment on Corporatisation Of Intelligence by harikondamuruGood intelligence is a pre-requisite not only to prosecute wars but also to prevent them. This is an area which India has found to be lacking. Presently intelligence can be gathered from multiple sources and is widely available. Increasingly int collection and analysis is technology driven. It is a very specialised and sophisticated field where […]
2.3.2025 06:15Corporatisation Of IntelligenceTrump’s mineral deal with Ukraine is not about minerals alone. It is aimed at many birds with one stone. It enables USA to bind Russia, Ukraine and the EU in economic agreements. It paves way for USA to reduce dependance on China for critical minerals. It will open doors for reconstruction of Ukraine. The entire […]
2.3.2025 05:46TRUMP’S MINERAL DEAL : MANY BIRDS WITH ONE STONEThe recent statement by the COAS of Bangladesh indicates that all is not well within. If the situation does not improve, there could be another coup. Mr Sandeep Unnithan’s New Nine Plus show was incisive to bring out all facets of the situation in Bangladesh through an erudite panel of which I was a part.
2.3.2025 05:09IS THERE ANOTHER COUP IN THE WORKS IN BANGLADESH?The truth about Trump today in Mark Antony's words He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus and we peep under his legs to find us dishonourable graves. That sums up Except Russia Germany and China India, France and the UK have rushed to meet Trump to FIND THEMSELVES DISHONOURABLE GRAVES. Trump just told Modi cut your taxes and let US goods in or else I will kick out all Indian goods with 25% and or with reciprocal tariff.Reduce your trade surplus with us by buying costly may be screwed up American weapons and I do not guarantee that I will provide sparess or even not secretly monitor their use.Now get the hell out and start working on what I said.Modi came back saying my friend Trump and I had a great meeting. Piyush Goyal is working on cutting customs duties on US imports. Trump is a megalomaniac like Hitler.I am not saying that what he is doing is wrong for the US.The US has been having a fiscal deficit of 5 percent over for several years increasing US debt to over 100 % of their GDP..Trump is a businessman and for him the US govt is a company not a govt.So he is cutting costs everywhere.He is improving its BS. But govts are not companies.And he will realise it soon. I was initially for F 35.But recently I learnt our AMCA will surpass all known fighters with 5+++ technologies and we should not go for any foreign fighters. Tejas Mk2A will start ground run in 2/3 months it is a 4.5 + generation.Good enough. But engine constraint is there.GTRE is trying for a KAVERI 2.0 for AMCA. USAID in india gave no aid to govt but to the voluntary agencies sometimes in collaboration with the govt.We do not care if it ends may be better. Regarding our neighbours who have lost USAID we cannot and should not fill the gap.We have separate budget for external aid. The only saving grace is the 25 % tariff for India will be known after a bilateral on it.
28.2.2025 04:20Comment on Chinese Views of India US Relations by madrassivaramanInteresting perspectives !!
16.2.2025 04:43Comment on The Trump Squeeze on China by harikondamuruIn reply to <a href="https://gunnersshot.com/2025/01/28/indias-space-docking-and-chinese-reactions/comment-page-1/#comment-4854">madrassivaraman</a>. There are technical problems on unlocking as per ISRO sir.
13.2.2025 01:16Comment on India’s Space Docking and Chinese Reactions by Gunners ShotBut we are yet to undock.Till such time that is done fluidly we have not succeeded.
11.2.2025 11:20Comment on India’s Space Docking and Chinese Reactions by madrassivaramanThere is a India TV report that Pak army tried to infiltrate after attacking an army post.But infiltrators trapped in a mined area and killed by the Insian army 7 casualities on the Pak side including a Captain.A pak Brig was sern at the site.
9.2.2025 11:25Comment on YUNARCHY IN BANGLADESH by madrassivaraman… reposted this!
9.2.2025 03:46Comment on YUNARCHY IN BANGLADESH by JavAlps… liked this!
4.2.2025 12:56Comment on Bangladesh : A Worrisome Redux by JavAlpsHas any general here read Gen.Henderson Brooks report on the 1962 war.
4.2.2025 07:57Comment on Bangladesh : A Worrisome Redux by madrassivaraman