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

July 9, 2026

The Battery Supply Chain as a New Geopolitical Battleground

July 8, 2026

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

June 30, 2026

Critical Raw Materials and Transatlantic Industrial Competition

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

The Battery Supply Chain as a New Geopolitical Battleground

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

Critical Raw Materials and Transatlantic Industrial Competition

The Draghi Agenda and Europe’s Shrinking Margin for Delay

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

Strait of Hormuz Crisis: Iran, Energy Security, and the Future of US-China Rivalry

The Strait of Hormuz crisis has become a test of global energy security, US credibility, China’s strategic positioning, and alliance cohesion in an...

April 25, 2026

The Algorithmic Battlefield: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Modern Warfare Without Accountability

Artificial intelligence now drives targeting decisions in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran, compressing kill chains from days to minutes. Yet no one is held...

April 22, 2026

The war imposed on Iran and its impact on ASEAN

Higher energy costs, shipping disruption, inflation, fiscal strain, and intensifying great-power pressure are reshaping ASEAN as the war imposed on Iran turns a...

April 22, 2026

The Price of Safe Transit

A ceasefire has frozen the US‑Israel‑Iran conflict but not restored free passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran now proposes a per‑vessel toll...

April 21, 2026