Security & Conflict
Afghanistan Under Taliban Rule: Governance Through Systematic Repression and Gender Apartheid
Afghanistan's Taliban governance since August 2021 has evolved from ad-hoc rule through violence into a systematized apparatus of repression codified through formal legislation. What...
China’s Private Security Companies in the Middle East: Commercial Actors, Strategic Tools
Chinese PSCs are state-adjacent actors embedded in China’s overseas economic expansion, particularly under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), generating new arenas of US–China...
China’s Approach to Unrestricted Warfare: Strategy, Tactics, and Global Implications
The nature of warfare has changed dramatically in the 21st century. As per Baughman, advances in technology, cyber capabilities, economic interdependence, and information networks...
China and Egypt Move to Shield Suez Canal From Iran War Fallout
Chinese intelligence agencies, think tanks, and military establishments focused on the Middle East rely on the pivotal role of the Egyptian army as a...
Chinese Intelligence Targets Organized Crime in Egypt
Chinese intelligence and security agencies view the crackdown on influence thuggery and the arrest of Sabry Nakhnoukh by Egyptian security forces in June 2026...
What Happens When the US Military Puts AI in Charge of National Security?
On June 5, Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 11. The document is titled "Artificial Intelligence in the National Security Enterprise" and it does...
Cutting Crimea Off From Russia: Ukraine’s Drone Commander Plan
In an underground bunker, Ukraine's drone forces commander, Robert Brovdi, is analyzing vast amounts of information to plan a campaign aimed at cutting Crimea...
How Moscow’s wartime alliance with Pyongyang is redrawing the map of Northeast Asian power
For decades, the default assumption in Asian geopolitics was simple: if you wanted to understand North Korea, you watched Beijing. China was the lifeline,...
What Is Hezbollah? Understanding the Lebanese Group and Its Conflict with Israel
The war between Israel and Hezbollah, supported by Iran, has caused severe damage in Lebanon, but an agreement to partially reduce tensions has prevented...
The Intelligence’s new roles and tools: What does the “40-day war” against Iran reveal?
Intelligence agencies of all classifications and branches were not far from the second American-Israeli military confrontation against Iran, as is customary in wars. However,...