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Gunners Shot wishes you and you family a very happy and prosperous 2022 designed by Sudha @  Pansandspaces.com 2022 is a year of great promise for all of us. The enigma is that what will it take India to realize this promise.   If the Virus is under control anywhere in the world at present, it is in India. An NRI  with whom I interact believed that India has found its unique way to deal with the Chinese Virus. Of course, we have had to pay a heavy price to collar it in the middle of 2021 when the Delta variant was rampant, and our government was absent. Happily, for us, past that time of crisis, our vaccination program has picked up steam and is standing the test of protecting us. With vaccinations for teenagers and booster shots on the anvil, India is well poised to face the Omicron challenge squarely. With the Prime Minister making it a point to address the nation more frequently, it is reasonable to presume that all hands are on the deck to tackle challenges comin...

I had a great discussion (Live)  with Mr Sree Iyer on China in a slow melt.  Article on this subject can be viewed here    Gunners Shot Website       

Discussion on on this subject can be viewed @ P Gurus Channel   Paul Krugman’s article in New Yok Times,  Is China in Big Trouble , The Wall Street Journal article,   The Slow Meltdown of the Chinese Economy , Ruchir Sharma’s article  China is faltering, but The World is not Feeling the Effects ,  and South China Morning Post article  China’s Growth Model is Losing Steam  and many more indicate that the Chinese economy is at risk of a slow melt driven by low consumption, high savings, declining population, weak social security net and an over reliance on real estate. The sense one gets is that a recovery is difficult and the slowdown will endure. However theories of China collapsing have been propounded many times only to see china continuing its rise unhindered. So how do we get an reasonably accurate assessment of in an opaque system like China? Hence I collected relevant articles which indicate the causatives and drivers of the Chinese slo...

Nothing like Pakistan to rev up a Christmas. However, Santa has given it a miss since he is scared that he might be swinging at the end of a rope by the end of the day on blasphemy charges. It is better to leave Pakistanis to their favorite establishment – The Deep State. However lets catch the Christmas mood in Pakistan…. Fahid Hussain  in his article  All Fall Down  says… Despondency. Disappointment. Disillusion. Take your pick of the word to describe the year that is limping its way across the finish line….The year illustrated all that is wrong, weak and inadequate in our politics. The government could not govern, the opposition could not oppose and the establishment could not finish what it started….The year 2021 was especially harsh on the party (PTI). Though the scourge of  inflation  has dogged it since previous years, it was this year that it really cut deep into household budgets and incinerated what was left of the government’s goodwill…. Perhaps ...

 PART 1 :  Basics of PLA and Its Evolution Click here to see PART  1 PART  2 - Organisation and Command Structure  Click here to see PART 2 PART 3: Explanation of the Organisations CLICK TO SEE PART 3  In this part we discuss the effect of terrain on PLA   

  Part 1 : Preamble   @   https://www.gunnersshot.com/2021/10/firepower-and-artillery-futuristic.html   Part 2 : Effects on Firepower in the Himalayas   @  https://www.gunnersshot.com/2021/10/fire-power-and-artillery-futuristic.html   Part 3 : Chinese Operational Concepts and Employment of Firepowe r   @  https://www.gunnersshot.com/2021/11/fire-power-and-artillery-futuristic.html   Part 4: Fire & Move and Historical Evolution of Firepower     @  https://www.gunnersshot.com/2021/11/firepower-and-artillery-futuristic.html   Part 5 : Operational Evolution and Key Tenets of Firepower   @   https://www.gunnersshot.com/2021/11/firepower-and-artillery-futuristic_20.html   Part 6 : Firepower Enhancement   https://www.gunnersshot.com/2021/12/artillery-and-firepower-futuristic.html   As per a very well researched paper on ‘Future of Fires’, the four main roles of artillery in the mod...