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Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab and the contest to reroute power between the Indian Ocean and Europe

July 9, 2026

Russia’s long-range campaign against Ukraine’s national systems

July 8, 2026

China’s submarine missile test and the struggle over Pacific security

July 8, 2026

Iran’s Military Reconstitution and the Political Economy of Strategic Endurance

June 30, 2026

Israel’s Drone Industrial Rebuild and the Contest for the Low-Cost Battlefield

Israel built its drone power around long-endurance aircraft, advanced sensors and precision weapons. The wars since 2023 exposed a different requirement: thousands of cheap, replaceable drones for reconnaissance, attack and interception. The resulting industrial race is testing Israel’s ability to combine technological sophistication with mass production, secure supply chains and sustainable battlefield economics.

Israel’s Drone Industrial Rebuild and the Contest for the Low-Cost Battlefield

Russia’s long-range campaign against Ukraine’s national systems

China’s submarine missile test and the struggle over Pacific security

Iran’s Military Reconstitution and the Political Economy of Strategic Endurance

The Reorganization of American Military Power for an Age of Industrialized Warfare

Mossad and the Reconstitution of Israeli Grand Strategy

The Pentagon’s 300,000-Drone Competition Is an Experiment in Industrialized Attrition

The Pentagon’s plan to acquire roughly 300,000 small attack drones should be understood as an attempt to construct a new military production system...

June 30, 2026

Mossad and the Reconstitution of Israeli Grand Strategy

Mossad’s transition under Roman Gofman reflects a wider transformation in Israeli grand strategy, in which intelligence, covert action, political warfare and technological dominance...

June 30, 2026

Iran’s Theory of Survival and Ascent

Threshold Sovereignty offers an Iranian theory of power after the old order, arguing that Iran’s survival and ascent depend on converting pressure, geography,...

May 5, 2026

Why Abu Dhabi Walked Away from OPEC and What It Means for the GCC

Abu Dhabi’s exit from OPEC discipline signals the end of collective cartel management in the Persian Gulf. Divergent fiscal clocks between Saudi Arabia...

May 2, 2026

Security Without Command, Energy Without OPEC: China’s Strategy in the Persian Gulf

China is not trying to become the Persian Gulf’s next security patron. Instead, it offers a new model, which is security without command,...

May 1, 2026

Strategic Culture in International Relations and the United States and Its Uncontrollable Addiction to War

The United States has built a national security apparatus that makes war the most administratively convenient response to foreign policy challenges, creating a...

April 26, 2026

Strategic Alloys and Advanced Materials in Military Power: From Titanium and Superalloys to Hypersonics, High‑Entropy Alloys, and Circular Minerals

Titanium sponge, nickel superalloys, rare earth magnets, hypersonic ceramics, gallium, germanium, and forty more defense materials. China’s export controls, allied mine-to-magnet investments, and...

April 25, 2026

Four Futures of Work: How China Disrupts the Global AI Labor Framework

Three Western views on AI and jobs warn of collapse, gradual shift, or net creation. China operates on a fourth logic that treats...

April 25, 2026

How Ukraine Rewrites the Economics of Combat Power in the New Revolution of Military Affairs

For three decades, Western militaries built exquisite platforms for high end war. Ukraine proved that assumption wrong. This analysis reveals how affordable drone...

April 25, 2026

Europe’s New Infrastructure War Against Russia-Linked Cyber Threats

Russia-linked cyberattacks are no longer just digital disruptions. They are becoming a direct test of Europe’s critical infrastructure, civil defense, and political resilience....

April 25, 2026