Security & Conflict
The Diffusion of Chinese Airpower in South Asia: Bangladesh’s J-10CE and PL-15
Bangladesh is moving towards military mobilization and starting negotiations with China for the acquisition of fighter aircraft J10CE equipped with PL-15. Reuters reported that...
Dhaka’s Mecca Question: What Bangladesh Would Actually Be Joining?
When Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement...
Post-Assad Syria and the Struggle for a New Security Architecture
When Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed in a political earthquake on 8 December 2024, it was far more than a mere political transition that occurred....
China–Syria Clash Deepens Over Uyghur Fighters in Al-Sharaa’s Army
Chinese intelligence, military, and political agencies view Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa's strategy of integrating foreign fighters into the institutions of the new Syrian state...
Canada Backs $116 Billion Global Defence Bank to Finance Allied Rearmament
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney supports a new global defense bank called the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), which aims to help allied...
Can Russia’s Security-for-Resources Model Defeat Terrorism in West Africa?
The Confederation of Sahel States (Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger) increasingly use a security-for-resources barter model for fighting against growing terrorism in West Africa....
NATO Has No Article for This: What Greenland Reveals About Alliance Law’s Blind Spot
On 11 February, NATO launched Arctic Sentry — Swedish Gripen jets patrolling Greenlandic airspace, German Eurofighters overhead, nine flags behind a single new command....
Nuclear Escalation Scenarios: Impact Of American and Russian “Firebreak” Theories on Israeli Security Doctrine
“Theory is a net. Only those who cast, can catch.”- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1959)
In assessing Israel’s nuclear deterrence and escalation...
CIA Staff Exodus: How China Is Exploiting the Crisis to Recruit U.S. Intelligence Talent
Chinese media and intelligence are closely following the exodus of the American Central Intelligence Agency CIA personnel, particularly the months-long wait for new retirees...
US Warns Over Huawei’s AI Data Center Offer to Egypt for Military and Surveillance Uses
Chinese Huawei Technologies Company has submitted a formal bid to the Egyptian government to establish advanced artificial intelligence (AI) data centers for various government...