Power, conflict, strategy and the forces that reshape the world through war and peace
The Second World War was decided not on the beaches of Normandy but on the frozen steppes of Russia — at Stalingrad, at Kursk, outside Moscow — at a cost in human life that the Western world has never fully reckoned with or adequately commemorated.
Read MoreFrom Shivaji’s mountain guerrilla doctrine to the catastrophe of Panipat and the final collapse at Assaye — a strategic history of how the Maratha military machine rose, adapted, and ultimately fell.
In 528 CE, a coalition of Indian kings led by Yashodharman crushed the Hun king Mihirakula, ending fifty years of occupation and buying the subcontinent four centuries free of foreign conquest.
How Chandragupta Maurya stopped one of Alexander's own generals, halting Hellenistic expansion into India and making the Mauryas the superpower of South Asia.
In 738 CE, after fifteen years of war, Indian kings broke the Umayyad Caliphate's bid to conquer the Indian heartland — a reversal as consequential as Tours, and far less remembered.
