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Western strategy in both Iran and Ukraine increasingly relies on the belief that more military and economic pressure will eventually force adversaries to concede. But when opponents see surrender as a greater danger than…
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Britain is sailing through the South China Sea as if history has not moved. HMS Spey, a Royal…
Iran
Iranian state media claimed two missiles struck a US Navy vessel near Jask after IRGC warnings, raising the…
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Britain is being warned to prepare for mass mobilisation, but the real weakness lies deeper. The systems needed…
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The ceasefire did not restore normal transit through Hormuz. It produced a rationed, militarised passage regime in which insurance costs, sanctions risk, legal ambiguity…
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Maria Zakharova’s outburst was propaganda, but it exposed a deeper truth by accident. Germany is not simply buying more weapons.…
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The U.S. rescue of a downed F-15E airman inside Iran appears genuine. But the distance problem, the improvised airstrip, the…
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The loss of a US F 15E over Iran did not prove that Washington has lost the war. It proved something narrower and more serious: American air power still depends on vulnerable rescue chains,…
Britain
Britain cannot claim neutrality while allowing RAF Fairford and Diego Garcia to be used for strikes on Iran.…
Iran
The Iran war is revealing a structural weakness in modern military power. Early strikes on radar systems reduced…
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This conflict is not being decided by battlefield dominance but by whether enough disruption can be sustained to…
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Strikes on South Pars and repeated attacks on Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG hub show the Iran conflict has moved from military targets to energy…
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Kharg Island handles most of Iran’s oil exports. If it becomes a battlefield, the conflict stops being a regional war…
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A war that was expected to produce quick coercive results is instead revealing three deeper pressures shaping modern conflict: industrial…
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Iran claims it struck the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with missiles and drones during the expanding West Asia conflict, a charge Washington denies as incidents involving naval forces, refuelling aircraft, and regional…
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Day five of the war with Iran shows the conflict expanding beyond the opening strikes into a regional systems confrontation. Missile exchanges, tanker attacks,…
Iran
The assassination of Iranian leadership during active negotiation for the second time in six months has transformed a…
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An evidence-based analysis of missile inventories, interceptor burn rates, production capacity, and cost exchange ratios to assess whether…
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The war in the Gulf is no longer a scenario to be modelled. It is underway, and its…
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Israel launched roughly 200 aircraft in the opening wave. The USS Abraham Lincoln pulled back 800 kilometres from the Strait…
United States
The United States has crossed a threshold no previous administration dared approach. By killing Iran’s Supreme Leader, Washington has not…