Defence
U.S. naval movements are not a retreat but a recalibration of risk: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) have shifted away from Iran’s dense coastal strike envelope to reduce targeting…
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Israeli television presents a powerful narrative of military success, regime collapse in Tehran, and an inevitable shift in…
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Kharg Island handles most of Iran’s oil exports. If it becomes a battlefield, the conflict stops being a…
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A war that was expected to produce quick coercive results is instead revealing three deeper pressures shaping modern…
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Iran’s missile campaign may be targeting something far more important than airbases or cities. Radar stations across the Gulf form the sensor architecture that…
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The sinking of the Iranian frigate Dena off Sri Lanka has raised allegations that the attacking submarine violated the Geneva…
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Day five of the war with Iran shows the conflict expanding beyond the opening strikes into a regional systems confrontation.…
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What began as a decapitation strike against Iran has, by the fifth day, expanded into a regional confrontation touching US bases, Gulf monarchies, Israel’s northern front, and global energy routes. The structure of the…
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An evidence-based analysis of missile inventories, interceptor burn rates, production capacity, and cost exchange ratios to assess whether…
Defence
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…
United States
The United States has crossed a threshold no previous administration dared approach. By killing Iran’s Supreme Leader, Washington has not merely eliminated a political…
Iran
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China is not preparing to fight for Iran. It is doing something more consequential: managing the Iran file as part…
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The June 2025 war did not eliminate Iran’s nuclear risk or restore stable deterrence. It damaged the verification framework that…
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.
Middle East
The Middle East is no longer organised around sovereign states and formal diplomacy. From Yemen to Somaliland to Iran, competing models of power are…
Defence
Western governments presented satellite internet as a democratic safeguard against repression. Iran treated it as hostile infrastructure and…
Technology
As Iran imposed one of its most comprehensive internet shutdowns in years, a different kind of connection began…
Africa
Iran’s unrest is driven by economic collapse and loss of confidence. But its sudden global amplification coincides with…
World
Is war with Iran Approaching. The choreography of logistics, diplomacy, and rhetoric suggests a narrowing path to confrontation that could…
Iran
Leaked Russian export tables suggest Tehran has signed a €6 billion deal for 48 Su-35 fighters, with component deliveries set…