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

July 9, 2026

How the Islamic Republic of Iran is preserving sovereign choice during wars

July 8, 2026

The Aras Order: Azerbaijan, Israel and the Campaign to Bypass Iran in the South Caucasus

July 8, 2026

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

July 8, 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 Aras Order: Azerbaijan, Israel and the Campaign to Bypass Iran in the South Caucasus

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

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

Iran’s postwar military recovery will be shaped by industrial resilience, dispersed production, asymmetric force design and carefully managed external partnerships. Tehran is likely...

June 30, 2026

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

The Pentagon’s emerging force design extends far beyond drones. It links autonomous systems, long-range munitions, missile defence, space architectures, contested logistics, nuclear modernization...

June 30, 2026

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

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

Why Coercion Fails in the Hemisphere

Rubio is right to prioritize the hemisphere, but coercion produces compliance while embeddedness produces consent that lasts. Pressure alone is not a doctrine.

April 25, 2026

How Pope Leo XIV Redefines Vatican Political Interference

The Vatican no longer asks permission to speak; under Pope Leo XIV, it uses structural moral leverage to influence war, immigration, and sovereignty...

April 25, 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