Deependra Singh Hooda - Volume VII, Issue 32

DPG is deeply committed to the growth of India’s national power and purpose, the security and prosperity of the people of India and India’s contributions to the global public good. [...] In May, the Delhi Policy Group had published a policy brief titled “Fighting Conventional Wars: Lessons from the Ukraine Conflict”.6 This brief will also draw some lessons from the war in Ukraine but look beyond the actual war- fighting tactics and strategy to some of the more general aspects that could inform the general public and policymakers alike. [...] Heightened insecurity in the mind of one state is often a result of the difficulty in gauging the intention of the other state and a lack of proper strategic communication between the concerned states. [...] The Anglo-German naval competition at the beginning of the twentieth century, one of the causes of World War I, is a classic case of the security dilemma in which German naval expansion was seen as a threat by Great Britain, which responded by building up its naval fleet. [...] When Putin announced the start of the 'special military operation,' he said that the purpose was to "demilitarise and denazify Ukraine.”11 After a failure to capture Kyiv and Kharkiv, the two largest cities in Ukraine, the Russian military shifted its focus to the east and the south.