The Hamas Disarmament Agreement Is Only a Beginning for Gaza
Disarmament is not merely the collection of weapons, nor is reconstruction merely the rebuilding of houses. Recent reports of progress in negotiations…
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Iran, Cornered: A Weakened Regime Chooses Its Battles
As Iran widens its retaliation against the Gulf monarchies, why is Israel largely spared and what does that reveal about Tehran’s changing…
Oman’s Cautious Iran Policy: The Gulf’s Ultimate Balancing Act
What guides Oman’s apparent sympathies to the Islamic Republic? The answer lies less in ideological affinity than in shrewd, long-cultivated realism towards…
Hezbollah Under Pressure, Even as It Broadcasts Defiance
The Lebanese government, along with many non-Shia political factions, has intensified calls for Hezbollah to relinquish its weapons or at least curtail…
Iran’s Criminal Proxies: How Tehran Has Turned Organised Crime Into an Instrument of Foreign Policy
As Iran developed its formal “Axis of Resistance”, it simultaneously built a parallel infrastructure of criminal proxies far beyond the region. As…
Is Iran’s Military Fracturing? Signs of Strain in War with the US and Israel
As the war between Iran, the United States and Israel continue, one of the most consequential and contested questions is whether Iran’s…
Military AI: When the Future of Tech Meets the Power of the State
For an industry that enjoys speaking in the accents of moral philosophy, America’s frontier-AI business is learning the language of procurement. The…
The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier and a Shifting Balance of Power
Cyprus lies well beyond the Middle East’s battlefields, yet it has been drawn into the conflict between Israel, the United States, and…
Nuclear Turkey: A Dangerous Step Against Global Security
On 25th February, Yeni Şafak, a newspaper closely aligned with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s administration, made headlines with a provocative stance on…
The Dendias Doctrine: Greece’s Diplomatic and Military Blueprint Against Turkish Expansion
On 18 February, Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias unveiled a new measure dubbed the “Turkey clause,” aimed at preventing major weapons systems…