Defence
The war with Iran is exposing more than battlefield danger. It is revealing a chain of strategic miscalculations that began long before the first missile was fired. Assumptions about regime collapse, missile defence, alliance…
Defence
Defence
Defence
Defence
The sinking of the Iranian frigate Dena off Sri Lanka has raised allegations that the attacking submarine violated…
Defence
Day five of the war with Iran shows the conflict expanding beyond the opening strikes into a regional…
Defence
What began as a decapitation strike against Iran has, by the fifth day, expanded into a regional confrontation…
Defence
Economics
Iran
Defence
Defence
The war in the Gulf is no longer a scenario to be modelled. It is underway, and its first strategic theatre is not only…
Defence
Washington may win the opening exchanges against Iran, but the structural balance of this conflict tells a darker story. Industrial…
Defence
In the early hours before dawn, United States and Israeli forces struck deep inside Iran in what Tehran sources describe…
Defence
The USS Gerald R. Ford has entered the Eastern Mediterranean, shifting deterrence into a confined missile environment where endurance , not the opening strike, will determine escalation.
Economics
Artificial intelligence is beginning to lift productivity in parts of the US economy. In Britain, it is not.…
Defence
The international system is no longer frictionless. Industrial constraint in Ukraine, cost exchange asymmetries in the Red Sea,…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
As Washington accelerates frontier AI and tightens chip controls, Beijing is building something different: a state-coordinated system that…
Europe
Germany’s postwar security model rested on delegated legitimacy: American power guaranteed order while Berlin embedded restraint inside NATO and law. That settlement is now…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Defence
Defence
Defence
Diplomacy
American protection is no longer automatic. Europe is exposed, China is unavoidable but risky, and Britain is rebuilding optionality. Keir…
Culture
A winter storm settles quietly over Plano, turning snow into ice and calm into constraint. Beneath the stillness, the storm…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
CES 2026 did not prove that humanoid robots are ready for the world. It revealed something more consequential: an overcrowded market rushing toward the same idea at the same time. History suggests what comes…
Diplomacy
Diplomacy
Defence
Defence
Iran
When Iran shut down the internet in January, it did more than silence social media. It severed coordination, visibility, and momentum. This analysis explains…
Diplomacy
Europe insists it defends international law but has been cautious when an ally breaches it. From Venezuela where…
Defence
Western governments presented satellite internet as a democratic safeguard against repression. Iran treated it as hostile infrastructure and…
Russia
A week of strikes, outages, and ship seizures suggests the war is shifting from front lines to systems.…
Law
Commercial oil tankers linked to Venezuela are being boarded, detained, and diverted on the high seas without a declared war,…
Russia
U.S. officials say two tankers tied to Venezuelan oil were lawfully interdicted because they were “stateless”. Russia rejects that, insisting…