The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has moved from contingency planning into operational reality, unleashing cascading effects across a swathe of commodities markets.

Israeli strikes on Iran: recent attacks on critical water and energy infrastructure, evidence of Iran’s ‘mosaic defense’ in action, the possibility of divergences in US-Israeli alignment, and mixed ...

Putin Russia. It will either remain a feral, aggressive, isolated Empire, or it will fall apart with a deafening crash. A transitional, cozy European alternative for this territory simply does not ...

Short-term, the policy of arming and supporting ethnic proxies could hasten the demise of the Islamic regime in Iran. But the ...

Like early hopes of people power standing in for boots on the ground, war by proxy is a beguiling idea: it’s hands off, ...

As a phenomenon whose behavior is driven by long-range impersonal forces rather than whimsical vicissitudes, the evolution of organized crime in Mexico has proved to be quite dynamic and ductile. The ...

Examining over 75 years of relations between the United States and the Republic of China (Taiwan) – a core relationship characterized by a mix of empowerment and constraint.

In an era of precision saturation attacks and resource restraint, missile defense will be defined less by the number of interceptors than by the coherence of the regional architecture behind them.

President Trump has signaled a willingness to expand the Iran war, declaring that it could last four weeks or ‘far longer,’ and alluding to possible boots on the ground. Such statements are the kind ...