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The Aramco Attacks The Outcomes . On 14 Sep 19 at about 0400h, the ARAMCO oil refineries at Khurais and Abqaiq were attacked. The attacks were simultaneous in two waves. It was reported that the attack was carried out using a combination of 25 UAVs and cruise missiles. Analysis later revealed that there were 19 strikes including on 14 storage tanks, 3 oil processing trains and 2 misses.   The attacks shutdown the facilities and cut Saudi Arabia’s oil production down by 5.7 million barrels of oil per day. That was about 5% of global oil production. There is no news about full revival yet. The attack destabilized world financial markets and put huge question marks on the way future wars are to be fought. The Houthi rebels of Yemen claimed responsibility. These were discarded and the needle of suspicion swung to Iran, which kept quiet. Later reports emerged   that said one of their Generals had said "Time to Take Out the Swords" . However, in the aftermath of t...

  Frontline- Faultline-Battleground The post WW2 British colonial collapse left the ‘Great Game’ Imperialists with a quandary. How to stem the spread of communism of Soviet Russia? How to stop its confluence with India whose socialism was visible even then. A geostrategic wedge that would simultaneously connect and separate – the Middle East, Soviet Central Asia, Chinese controlled East Turkestan, Tibet and the rest of the Subcontinent was needed.   The two-nation theory swirling in political circles provided the answer.   A prosperous Islamic country based on the fertile Indus Valley and fronted by the Hindukush was the solution. It could be granted Independence while the Rest of India would be earning it through a grim struggle.   A country so created would be ever beholden to the West to be its frontline in the region. Pakistan, the Unnatural Frontline State was thus created through British machinations. East Pakistan (Bangladesh) was an irrelevant by ...