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When US President Donald Trump asked why China, Japan and South Korea were not doing more to protect energy transit routes such as the Strait of Hormuz, he highlighted a visible symptom of a much deeper change. Asia's...
In a recent Financial Times interview, Donald Trump warned NATO allies that refusing to join a U.S.-led naval coalition in the Strait of Hormuz would carry serious consequences for the alliance. He suggested that...
Edward Gibbon observed that empires usually decay slowly, shaped by long-term structural forces, but that a single strategic error can accelerate that decline. The US–Israeli strike on Iran in February 2026 may be such...
NASA has approved an April launch for Artemis II, the first crewed mission to travel to lunar distance in five decades. The agency says the remaining technical problems have been mitigated or resolved, but inspectors...
Congress has not formally authorized hostilities in Iran, yet the administration may soon seek emergency funding for a campaign with no publicly defined duration or full cost. Defense briefings to lawmakers, obtained by...
Photographs from a missile strike in southern Iran showed scenes more harrowing than any case study Wes J. Bryant had reviewed while working to overhaul how the U.S. military protects civilians. Parents wept over...
The fog of war is used to describe battlefield confusion, but a similar haze can surround the economic fallout from conflicts. That risk is heightened when fighting occurs near strategic energy routes that carry a large...
Oil briefly surged toward $120 a barrel on Monday before retreating after President Trump told CBS the “war is very complete, pretty much,” asserting Iran now has “no navy, no communications, no air force.” Earlier...
Recent American and Israeli strikes on Iran, and the uncertainty in Washington about next steps, are shifting global dynamics in ways that extend far beyond the Middle East. Iran’s counterattacks — including strikes on...
Multiple outlets, including The Washington Post and the Associated Press, have reported that Russia provided Iran with intelligence pinpointing U.S. forces in the Middle East — reportedly including the locations of...
Since the end of the Cold War Central Asia operated as a managed condominium: Moscow supplied the hard-security umbrella while Beijing supplied capital and trade. The Ukraine war has not toppled that arrangement, but it...
The US public is sharply split over the fighting in Iran. Donald Trump entered the White House in 2024 having campaigned on a promise of “no new wars,” yet a campaign of airstrikes carried out with the Israeli military...
