Sphere of Influence is a piece of fiction on India’s first military intervention in a Central Asian Nation from the point of view of four major and several minor characters based in Tajikistan, India, Russia and China. The story starts in Tajikistan, with the near successful assassination of its long serving President and the beginning of a foreign supported insurgency centered around its Gorno-Badakshan (GBAO) province. The Tajik President is operated upon at the Indian Military Hospital in Dushanbe as the interim President seeks help from Russia and the US. But a resurgent Russia has its own plans of who can and who cannot intervene. With a Russian backed air assault failing, it looks as if the entire half of Tajikistan will be lost for the duration of the winter. Eventually it is on a hastily collected force of Indian and Tajik soldiers battling to keep the crucial M 41 highway into the GBAO open for reinforcements, that the hopes of two nations rest upon.
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Sphere of Influence is a piece of fiction on India’s first military intervention in a Central Asian Nation from the point of view of four major and several minor characters based in Tajikistan, India, Russia and China.
The story starts in Tajikistan, with the near successful assassination of its long serving President and the beginning of a foreign supported insurgency centered around its Gorno-Badakshan (GBAO) province.
The Tajik President is operated upon at the Indian Military Hospital in Dushanbe as the interim President seeks help from Russia and the US. But a resurgent Russia has its own plans of who can and who cannot intervene.
With a Russian backed air assault failing, it looks as if the entire half of Tajikistan will be lost for the duration of the winter.
Eventually it is on a hastily collected force of Indian and Tajik soldiers battling to keep the crucial M 41 highway into the GBAO open for reinforcements, that the hopes of two nations rest upon.