Himadri Bose

Maritime affairs watcher, strategy and policy follower. Views are mine. RTs, links not endorsements.

[Texas National Security Review @TXNatSecReview]

Volume 9, Issue 4 of the Texas National Security Review is now available! This issue tackles complex challenges at the intersection of history, strategy, and statecraft.

Read it all now: https://t.co/B44qEPETu2

#NationalSecurity #Strategy #ForeignPolicy

[Texas National Security Review @TXNatSecReview]

Simplistic readings of the "Thucydides Trap" risk driving fatalistic foreign policy. In our latest, Robert Stone (@ufhamilton) and Joshua Hammond (@NavalWarCollege) argue that reducing ancient history to power politics misses Thucydides’ true insights.

https://t.co/dP1IuTTKeD

[Himadri Bose @ebbandflow99]

@rajeshkalra Couldn’t agree more, the in your face stream of ads even during highlights is another low

[Rajesh Kalra @rajeshkalra]

SonyLIV: Monopoly Meets Mediocrity

If this is how TV channels plan to win viewers online, good luck.
Just look at SonyLIV, showing the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in India.
Wrong tiles. Wrong event information. You click, discover something else is playing, hunt for the right stream—and every fresh click means another minute-long ad. Honestly, how many times must one sit through the same corporate foundation propaganda?
And then comes the commentary.
Viren Rasquinha is the obvious exception. He is sharp, knowledgeable and someone who actually understands sport. And the rest? Pedestrian sports knowledge accompanied by verbal diarrhoea.
One commentator announced that Ancy Sojan had lost the long jump gold “by a few metres.” 😳😳😳
It was 2 cm.
During the mixed 4x100m relay, Gurindervir Singh was repeatedly called “Gurvir”.
He is India’s 100m national record holder. Surely knowing his name is the bare minimum for someone being paid to commentate on Indian athletics.

Bad interface. Bad information. Endless ads. Commentary that often makes you reach for the mute button.

But when you have a monopoly, why bother?
The sports fan has nowhere else to go. SonyLIV knows it.
@virenrasquinha @AsianGamesOCA @SonyLIV

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

It is one thing to issue aspirational publications, but quite another to take action to develop uncrewed maritime systems. https://t.co/JECyAKEQ84

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

As a country with tropical climate, India needs mass cooling solutions.

Almost 6 decades ago, Lee Kuan Yew started completely air conditioning Singapore. He
credited air conditioning as one of the most significant factors in the nation's success. He believed that physical comfort was a prerequisite for high productivity in the tropics.

To quote Lee Kuan Yew:

"Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning, you can only work in the early morning hours or dusk.

The first thing I did upon becoming Prime Minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was the key to public efficiency."

Yesterday our central minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that he doesn't use AC in his car, he doesn't sit in air conditioned environment and he just keeps an onion in the pocket to beat the heat. He implied that is an easy and inexpensive way to beat the heat.

It is well known that Scindia's home, office and luxury cars are equipped with AC.

Telling ordinary Indians to keep an onion in the pocket to beat the heat is mockery of our people.

We don't have what is required to become a Singapore. Our minister is no Lee Kuan Yew. The least Scindia can do is not to talk this kind of unscientific crap.

There is no slightest evidence that keeping an onion in your pocket would help you beat the heat.

[Manpreet Sethi @manpreetsethi01]

In an article in @IndianExpress I explain d significance of this devp, & also caution that as India expands across multiple pathways, incl thru pvt participation, ALL stakeholders must be mindful of sensitivity of nuc material and techno they will be dealing with. @CAPS_INDIA

[Himadri Bose @ebbandflow99]

@mayank5885 @Real_JFK_Jr_ @grok is this true

[RealClearDefense @RCDefense]

As the U.S. Navy Just Demonstrated, War at Sea Is Global https://t.co/fReUq7rs6p

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

In @the_hindu today, I examine the great Indian fault-line of the north-south divide and discuss the possible ways forward out of the dilemmas it poses

[Jacopo Scita @jacoposcita]

Reuters is doing a pretty astonishing work covering the Iran War - these graphics are sensational!
https://t.co/j8qGtgHZJt

[Open Source Munitions Portal @MunitionsPortal]

NEW: To counter mis and disinformation about the Iran war, the OSMP has launched a collection of munition images from recent days.

Each entry is reviewed by at least two munitions experts before publication - with the page updated daily with more images.
https://t.co/XwsLDczMOU

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

"I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history" - @ProfessorPape.

[Himadri Bose @ebbandflow99]

@ESPNcricinfo @grok is this true

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.

https://t.co/rM77LJejuk

[Maria Petrova @_MariaPetrova]

... who is now finally on Twitter at @TTomTToro 👏🏼

[Himadri Bose @ebbandflow99]

@dtptraffic @tajpalacedelhi Alexander Kadakin marg is choked with double and triple parked vehicles on both sides of the road. This is a regular feature with parking of @tajpalacedelhi occupying the road and causing great inconvenience, pse take action

[Brad Setser @Brad_Setser]

The Trump administration is sure to use other authorities (122 maybe, 232, 301) to raise tariffs now that the court has struck down the IEEPA tariffs.

But striking down IEEPA still matters, particularly for China/other countries that aren't heavily hit by existing 232s

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