Kharg Oil Terminal, Iran

War Without Final Strike: Why Iran’s Kharg Oil Terminal Remains Untouched Center of US-Israel Campaign

As the United States and Israel intensify their military campaign against Iran, the rhetoric coming from Washington has grown steadily more triumphant. The administration of Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the conflict is rapidly degrading Iran’s military capabilities and...
US Military Bases in Middle East

US Military Bases in Middle East: US Military Expansion Overseas Turned Middle East Bases Into Strategic Targets for Iran

The recent escalation between the United States, Israel, and Iran has drawn global attention to a network that has existed quietly for decades: the vast system of American military bases across the Middle East and around the world. In the...
Diego Garcia-Chagos Islands

Diego Garcia-Chagos Islands at Center of Growing Dispute as UK Delays Chagos Sovereignty Deal and Mauritius Considers Legal Challenge

The long-running dispute over the sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago has entered a new and uncertain phase as tensions rise between the United Kingdom and Mauritius over delays in implementing a landmark treaty that would transfer control of the islands....
United States–Israeli strike on Iran

Suez to Hormuz: How US–Israel Attack on Iran Could Signal Turning Point in Global Order

In his monumental work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the historian Edward Gibbon argued that great powers rarely collapse in a sudden dramatic moment. Instead, empires typically weaken through slow, cumulative shifts in political...
Iran War

Iraq War’s Unfinished Legacy: How US Military Victory Opened Door to Iran’s Strategic Influence

More than two decades after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the United States continues to confront a paradox that has defined many modern wars: overwhelming military success does not necessarily translate into political victory. The campaign against Saddam Hussein’s regime...
Minab School Strike

Minab School Strike: How Collapse of US Civilian-Protection Safeguards May Have Led to One of Deadliest Missile Attacks on Children in Decades

The images that emerged from the southern Iranian port city of Minab stunned even veteran military analysts accustomed to the brutal calculus of modern warfare. A collapsed elementary school lay buried beneath shattered concrete, twisted metal and fragments of children’s...
Iran protests

Iran in Turmoil: US Threatens Military Action, Royalist Voices Amplify Amid Protests and Calls for Political Change

As Iranian and U.S. diplomats meet in Geneva for high-stakes negotiations aimed at averting a potential war, political tension within Iran is reaching a fever pitch. The Islamic Republic faces its most severe crisis since its founding in 1979. U.S....
Rare earths, China

China’s Export Control Dispute with Japan Exposes Southeast Asia to Supply Chain Dependence and Growing Geopolitical Risk

China’s escalating restrictions on Japanese defence-linked companies have largely been framed as a bilateral clash between Asia’s two largest economies. Yet the consequences extend far beyond Tokyo and Beijing. Across Southeast Asia, where supply chains for rare earths, electronics, automotive...
Pakistan Dominates in Air and Technology-Yet Afghanistan’s Mountains Could Neutralize Advantage in Sustained Confrontation

Pakistan Dominates in Air and Technology, Yet Afghanistan’s Mountains Could Neutralize Advantage in Sustained Confrontation

The latest military confrontation between Pakistan and Afghanistan marks one of the most serious turning points in relations between the two neighbors since the Afghan Taliban returned to power in August 2021. What began as recurring border skirmishes and mutual...
US Submarine operating Arctic

Arctic Spotlight Intensifies: Trump’s Greenland Focus Raises Norwegian Fears While Locals Remain Unmoved

The Arctic’s frozen waters became the scene of both a medical emergency and intensifying geopolitical drama this weekend, as Denmark’s Joint Arctic Command evacuated an ill crew member from a United States submarine operating in Greenlandic waters. The rescue, conducted...
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