Mihir
Occasional contributor to @livefist, @newslaundry, @swarajyamag. Distinguished (Armch)air Marshal. V-Dem Certified® Astronomer of Social Science.
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@akshayalladi For me, they were: - Russians are low on discipline and morale. Their equipment is poorly maintained, and their fighting positions are, for lack of a better word, “t...
@somnath1978 I don’t remember. Good excuse for me to listen to his interview again :) I believe it was this episode 👇🏻 https://t.co/6hivu8mINB
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@bali2020 All the praise these fellows get is a little overwrought. No doubt they were smart and excellent planners, but they also benefited from very favorable tailwinds.
Lots of discussion today on which tank is the best. Is it the M1A2? The Challenger 2? The Leopard 2? The T-90M? The answer is simple: the best tank is the one that most appropria...
@Sandeep_Mave Can this question be answered without knowing definitively where the MKI falls short compared to its modern peers (F/A-18E/F, F-15E, Rafale, etc.)?
This argument sounds like stonewalling. The absence of a national security strategy doesn’t justify retaining the same old antiquated structures either. https://t.co/VUPMqkMOWM
@MohalJoshi It wasn't in jest, and none of the examples in your thread show that Chinese vaccines are "duds". Lower in effectiveness, perhaps, and even that could be contested.
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Not trying to be snarky, but if an engine driver and conductor jump off a running train, the train will coast along just fine for a couple of hours, until it derails or crashes int...
“Blackmailed and left alone to die”, meaning: India was the largest producer of Covishield a foreign vaccine. In our moment of crisis, we were able to direct *all* production towar...
"This combination of not fully grasping the complexities of technology and a slippage in editorial assessment..." That's a fancy way of saying, "We didn't understand the subject m...