Colonel Ali Ahmed (Retd) was commissioned into the MARATHA LI in 1987. After premature retirement as a Colonel in 2008, he joined academia; later serving over eight years as a UN official in South Sudan, Kosovo and Abyei. His doctorates in International Politics are from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2012) and Cambridge University (2019). He is currently an independent strategic analyst, with his writings at https://aliahd66.substack.com/.
