- March 15th, 2026
For decades, the language of security in the Gulf revolved around oil fields, tanker routes, and missile defense systems. Strategic planners focused on protecting energy infrastructure, ensuring the free flow of crude through maritime chokepoints, and deterring missile attacks on...
Some of those apparitions come from the shadows of the Global Financial Crisis, when collapsing credit markets in the United States sent shockwaves through the global economy. Others appear to echo the trauma of the Asian Financial Crisis, when Asia’s...
Lessons from Iran’s nuclear latency strategy are forcing a strategic rethink in Tokyo and Seoul amid doubts about the credibility of the US nuclear umbrella. The war involving Iran has delivered a stark and unsettling verdict on one of the...
As the war involving the United States and Israel against Iran intensifies, a parallel narrative has been emerging within segments of American religious and political life — one that interprets the conflict not simply as geopolitics, but as the unfolding...
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...
For decades, the strategic thinking of the Islamic Republic has been shaped by one defining reality: geography. The vast and rugged terrain of the Iranian Plateau has long served as the foundation of Iran’s national defense strategy, providing natural barriers,...
The global oil market has been thrown into unprecedented turmoil following the escalation of conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran, with the International Energy Agency warning that the crisis has triggered what it calls the “largest supply disruption...
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...
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...
The sinking of an Iranian naval vessel in the Indian Ocean has ignited a fierce international controversy after Donald Trump said the United States Navy chose to destroy the ship rather than capture it because it was “more fun.” The...
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