India's Opposition is being asked to perform the herculean task of not only taking on a resourceful and ruthless BJP but also fending off a battery of institutions that serve only one side.
BJP won Mustafabad, but it was courtesy AIMIM which emerged as a vote cutter. While AAP had Muslim candidates in five seats, Congress had six such candidates.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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