The Army That Can’t Do the One Thing It’s Been Asked To Do
Three villages. That is the full extent of Lebanese Armed Forces control under the “pilot zone” framework that Washington brokered in June — Zawtar...
How Could China’s New South China Sea Base Affect Taiwan?
China has completed the first phase of construction at Antelope Reef in the disputed Paracel Islands, creating a large artificial island that analysts say...
Beijing’s Coalition of Drills: How China Is Renting Normalcy in Contested Waters
By chaining bilateral naval exercises across a widening circle of partners — Russia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and now Indonesia — Beijing is not...
Why Did U.S. Military Research Help China Build a Robot Dog Industry?
The rapid rise of China’s Unitree Robotics has exposed a striking paradox at the centre of the U.S. China technology competition: some of the...
How the United States Is Responding to the CRINK Coordination Threat
There is a temptation to read current American foreign policy as incoherent. A transactional presidency dismantles alliances, antagonises partners, and lurches between confrontations without...
Japan Releases Defense White Paper: Preparing for a Protracted Conflict Scenario
On August 4, 2026, the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi released the Defense White Paper. The event represents not merely a routine...
How the Mecca Pact Rewires Tehran’s Nuclear Calculus
On August 7th, with American warships blockading Iranian ports and Iranian fast boats still harassing tankers off the Omani coast, the leaders of Saudi...
A Muslim Trifecta: The New Challenge to Washington’s Middle East
In the city where Islam began, three leaders sat down last Friday and signed something the region has not seen before. Saudi Arabia's Mohammed...
Exercising Restraint: Situating Poland’s Strategy vis-à-vis NATO’s Collective Defense
On July 30th, a projectile object landed in Tarnawa-Kolonia, a village in eastern Poland. Upon further investigation, this object was identified as a Russian...
Japan’s Defence White Paper 2026 Highlights New Ways of Warfare: What Is the Need of the Hour?
Japan has remained at the forefront of global attention for several reasons in recent times — from concerns over an economic bubble and a...