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Is this true?How much of a spillover effect is this having on indian punjab?

Most comprehensive yet short overall animations these.

NEW DELHI: The Army is stepping-up its synergy in operational logistics with the Indian Railways to ensure it can swiftly mobilise as well as switch forces between the western front with Pakistan and the eastern one with China much faster than what is possible now. Towards this end, the...

Thought provoking stuff on a popular geopolitical thesis.

For anyone wishing to understand the underlying macro factors of medieval indian geopolitics.

25 MOST INFLUENTIAL CITIES IN HISTORY (Ancient Rome) Thought i'd start a thread on this topic covering some of the great cities of past and present that have shaped and continue to shape the world.Catalohyuk in anatolia is considered as the world's first city at 7000 BC with an estimate...

Found a superb series,thought i would share. Byzantines - Showcases 1.Great Aqueduct and cisterns of Constantinopole 2.Great triple wall complex of Constantinopole 3.Harbour and chain system of Constantinopole 4.Hippodrome of Constantinopole 5.Hagia Sophia Cathedral(later mosque/museum)...

PALKHED 1728 - BAJIRAO UNLEASHED BACKGROUND : The Region - The vindhya and satpura mountain ranges have formed the topographical barrier that seperated the great North Indian plains from the Deccan Plateau which serves as the entrypoint into south India from the western side.To the North is...

BATTLES OF TARAIN 1191 -92 (The Tripartite Contest) BACKGROUND : INDIA - EVOLUTION OF THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE The Imperial guptas represented the last great long standing centralized empire in India that dominated the subcontinent of the pre-islamic period.Gupta power was however fading by...

DARA 530 - LAST OF THE ROMANS BACKGROUND : As the Dark Ages as they have been called, settled in on Western Europe in the aftermath of the end of the western roman empire(476 ad) under the weight of the barbarian invasions, the centre of gravity of centralized power in the newly christian...

NICOPOLIS 1396 - LAST WESTERN CRUSADE BACKGROUND : With the decline and breaking up of the byzantine empire now confined to constantinopole,the alarming expansion of the ottoman emirate led to ever deeper inroads into the balkans.In 1392 Sultan Bayezid after reconfirming Serbia as his...

PHARSALUS 48 BC - FALL OF THE REPUBLIC Roman Republic 49 BC.Rome rules the western world.Gaius julius caesar,rome's most famous general, has just completed conquest of gaul,and now seeks a consulship-in-absentia from the roman senate,as his term as governor has expired-so he can return to...

BATTLE OF JHELUM 326 BC - ALEXANDER IN INDIA BACKGROUND : ALEXANDER MARCHES TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH To the ancient greeks ,India(indus derived from sanskrit sindhu)marked the eastern edge of the world - The ends of the earth .On the western extremity was the pillars of hercules(gibraltar...

BATTLE OF YARMUK BACKGROUND : The world in the early years of the 7th century AD.After death of Mohammad,prophet of islam his followers have united the arabian peninsula under the banner of the new religion.Meanwhile,the 2 great superpowers of the eastern world-The Byzantines of...

Just a topic for some discussion.What are ur favourite 5 batles/ampaigns in history?Need not necessarily be greatest battles,just your personal favourite.Wuld be nice to see some views.