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China Expands Island Strategy to Strengthen Control in Disputed Seas
China has announced plans to further develop more than eleven thousand islands that it claims as part of a long term strategy to strengthen...
Drones Above, Law Below: The Crisis of Modern Warfare
In March and April 2026, drone warfare has entered a new disturbing phase, one that not only reveals the cruelty of the present-day conflict,...
How the EU Plans to Deliver a €90 Billion Lifeline to Ukraine
A 90 billion euro ($105 billion) European Union loan for Ukraine, previously blocked by Hungary under Prime Minister Viktor Orban, may be revived following...
Ukraine Proposes Turkey as Venue for Possible Zelenskiy–Putin Peace Talks
As the war between Ukraine and Russia enters its fourth year following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, diplomatic efforts to restart peace negotiations remain...
Reality check: Kamil Idris’ Al-Jazeera article misses the Sudan peace point again
There will not have been many international leaders taken in by Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris’ opinion article published this week on the Al-Jazeera...
US Beats a Retreat: The Cost of Overstretch
Enveloped within the Conditional two-week Ceasefire deal and the dwindling Peace talks is a lesson for the US to avoid overstretching its power beyond...
Trump Rejects Truce Extension as Clock Ticks Down; U.S. Seizes Tanker
President Donald Trump announced he does not wish to extend a quickly ending ceasefire in the U. S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, stating the U....
The Barksdale Incursion: The End of Strategic Sanctuary
The drone incursions over Barksdale Air Force Base are not a local security lapse but a visible shift in the geography of strategic competition....
Xi’s Free Masterclass: The War China Won Without Fighting
While the United States was burning through cruise missiles, threatening to destroy Iranian civilization, and watching its vice president shuttle between Budapest and Islamabad...
Europe Without America’s Umbrella: The Case for Nuclear Independence
The Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) officially expired in February 2026; the absence of...