Defence
Washington may win the opening exchanges against Iran, but the structural balance of this conflict tells a darker story. Industrial limits, energy vulnerability in the Gulf, and the logic of attrition suggest that this…
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Iran
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The United States has quietly assembled the operational architecture required for sustained air operations against Iran. Refuelling aircraft,…
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The current escalation between the United States and Iran follows a strategic framework outlined in a 2009 Brookings…
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A U.S. or Israeli strike on Iran would not be a contained military operation but a trigger for…
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World
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Sanae Takaichi’s decision to describe a Taiwan contingency as a “survival-threatening situation” has pushed Japan–China tensions into legal and economic territory. Beijing answered with…
Defence
Israel’s conscription dispute is not mainly about religion or identity. Under the pressure of war and court rulings, the state…
Defence
The war in Ukraine did not create Western misjudgment about Russia. It exposed it. From officer culture and battlefield adaptation…
Defence
The Middle East security architecture does not exist in any meaningful sense. Fragmented regional actors, weak institutions, and rival alignments leave Iran negotiating deterrence bilaterally rather than regionally.
Diplomacy
American protection is no longer automatic. Europe is exposed, China is unavoidable but risky, and Britain is rebuilding…
China
Xi Jinping’s removal of senior PLA generals Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli has fuelled speculation about power struggles…
Defence
When the United States seized Venezuela’s president, the spectacle was immediate but the real contest was not. China…
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China has crossed into the catapult carrier era. The decisive question now is whether it can sustain carrier operations at sea. The Type 054B…
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Ukraine
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Iran
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Western governments presented satellite internet as a democratic safeguard against repression. Iran treated it as hostile infrastructure and moved to…
Russia
A week of strikes, outages, and ship seizures suggests the war is shifting from front lines to systems. Heat, water,…
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In the early hours of a freezing January night, Ukraine’s war was felt not through explosions but through failing boilers and cold radiators. Russia’s latest strike targeted the systems that turn energy into daily…
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Russia
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History
Measured in silver, the Roman soldier seemed poorly paid. But once we map his lifetime income by social percentile, he emerges as one of…
Defence
NEW DELHI — The four-day war began before breakfast. On a pale May morning, Indian Air Force fighters…
Defence
On a late summer day in Murmansk, the Russian nuclear icebreaker Arktika noses out of its berth, a…
Diplomacy
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has asked China to postpone joint naval exercises with Russia until after November’s Group…
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President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Wednesday as China staged a vast military spectacle in Beijing,…
Defence
By Jaffa Levy in London and Abu Rashid in Sana’a Last week — Thursday, August 28, 2025 — an airstrike…