Sir, can we have something like a think tank? we vote for a topic & we gather intel, resources & get to the bottom of it. Currently the forum provides information to the readers but how much of it is factual, even though if its factual can this be used in any academic purposes?. Please raise the standards of DFI such that the GOI reads our research.
The forum can keep functioning just like before but i want to rally the intellectual to form a group & go further than just posting their knowledge as mere replies.
attempt can be made, but it is important to note that quality of opinion or assessment is based on years of research on a particular topic. People who work at professional think tanks are researchers who are trained to do analysis based on pre-existing notions, philosophies and literary works. and they all have written books or literary works on various topics. whether their assessment or opinion is right or wrong is subjective.
We here at DFI are mostly enthusiasts where qualifications do not matter, and process of arriving at a conclusion also does not matter. Most of the time what we do is a collaborative effort of collecting information and opinions which are missed by main stream media, so that all information exists in one place in respective threads.
If you want to pursue this, you can surely create a thread in knowledge subsection, with limited number of members who are interested in the same, having access to it.
we attempted a structured war gaming exercise recently here at DFI, results were not satisfactory.