The 0.5th Front: Ephialtes's Hidden Path to India's Soul

The 0.5th Front is a hard-hitting fusion of military history, geopolitical analysis, and inner psychology that argues the most dangerous battles are never fought only on borders, but on invisible fronts we refuse to see. Through vivid retellings of the battles of Marathon and Thermopylae, the book introduces the idea of 0.5th front the hidden flank created by betrayal, complacency, and internal decay that turns even the strongest phalanx into an encircled target. Set against the backdrop of South Asia's turbulent present, the narrative maps ancient Greek strategies onto Pakistan's proxy wars, China's creeping advances, Bangladeshi orcamp politics, and India's own political, bureaucratic, cultural, and individual blind spots. Each chapter peels back a different layer: the soldier's mind under fire, the shadow games of deep states, the slow sabotage of patronage bureaucracy, the erosion of culture, and finally the Ephialtes within every citizen who trades discipline for comfort and outrage. More than a lament, The 0.5th Front becomes a playbook. It shows how nations can seal these hidden paths through institutional reform, technological vigilance, cultural clarity, and personal mastery of fear and impulse. For readers of military history, strategic affairs, and serious non-fiction, this book offers a bracing lens: if you don't identify your 0.5th front in time whether as a state or as an individual you will discover it only when the enemy has already arrived at your back