- April 1st, 2026
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...
Seventy years after the shock of the Suez Crisis in 1956 shattered Britain and France’s illusions of imperial authority, the world appears to be witnessing a strikingly similar drama unfolding at another strategic maritime chokepoint: the Strait of Hormuz. Then,...