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Greece’s $4bn Bet: How Washington Is Rebuilding Its Eastern Mediterranean Around Athens
The Visit That Skipped Ankara
On 7 October, Marco Rubio and Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis closed the sixth US–Greece Strategic Dialogue in Athens with...
North Korea’s New Missile Threat: What It Means for China, Taiwan and US Defenses
The intelligence and data centers, the Academy of Military Sciences, the Rocket Force, and the intelligence, military, and security apparatus of the People's Liberation...
Sudan Faces Fresh Pressure at OPCW Over Chemical Weapons Allegations
Sudan is facing renewed international pressure over allegations that its armed forces used chlorine-based chemical weapons during the country's civil war, with several governments...
Europe Is Rearming. It Is Not Integrating
For the better part of a decade, the European defence debate ran on a single complaint: Europe would not spend. That complaint is now...
NATO Is Winning the War Russia Isn’t Fighting
On 23 September, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter flying from Kaliningrad crossed into Polish airspace north of the town of Braniewo, penetrated roughly 300 metres...
McNamara’s Lessons for the Drone Age
Before Robert McNamara became US secretary of defense, he belonged to a generation of analysts who attempted to understand warfare through the lens of...
The Black Sea’s Quiet Shipping War Reaches NATO Waters
Seventy Miles Off Byala
At about 3am on 6 October, aerial and sea drones struck two Turkish-owned cargo ships some 70 nautical miles off the...
Pakistan’s Military Expands Gulf Role as Parliament Sits on the Sidelines
Eleven years after Pakistan decided against joining a Saudi-led intervention in Yemen, the country has now agreed to send more forces to Saudi Arabia...
No Rear Area Left: How the Houthis Took the War Beyond Yemen
A drone strike on a Madinah power station did little physical damage. It confirmed something more consequential: the Houthi threat is no longer a...
Why the Road Back to US-Iran Talks Still Runs Through Islamabad?
The June framework has become the shared vocabulary of the US-Iran conflict. Turning a reference point back into a process is a harder task,...