Iran
Ali Larijani, one of Iran’s most senior political and security figures, has reportedly been killed in an Israeli strike, but the claim remains unverified. The real story is not just whether he is dead,…
Defence
Iran claims it struck the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with missiles and drones during the expanding…
Defence
The war around Iran is exposing a deeper vulnerability in the global economy. A narrow maritime chokepoint that…
Defence
The war with Iran is exposing more than battlefield danger. It is revealing a chain of strategic miscalculations…
Defence
Defence
Israel
Germany
Defence
Iran does not need to defeat the United States or Israel quickly. Its strategy appears to be something colder: sustain missile and drone attacks…
Defence
Day five of the war with Iran shows the conflict expanding beyond the opening strikes into a regional systems confrontation.…
Defence
What began as a decapitation strike against Iran has, by the fifth day, expanded into a regional confrontation touching US…
Defence
If the war fails to eliminate Iran’s missile and drone capability, Israel faces the outcome it has warned about for decades: an enduring existential threat. Under those conditions, when conventional war fails to remove…
Economics
Iran
Defence
Defence
The war in the Gulf is no longer a scenario to be modelled. It is underway, and its…
Defence
Israel launched roughly 200 aircraft in the opening wave. The USS Abraham Lincoln pulled back 800 kilometres from…
United States
The United States has crossed a threshold no previous administration dared approach. By killing Iran’s Supreme Leader, Washington…
Defence
Washington may win the opening exchanges against Iran, but the structural balance of this conflict tells a darker story. Industrial limits, energy vulnerability in…
Defence
Iran
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Defence
The United States has quietly assembled the operational architecture required for sustained air operations against Iran. Refuelling aircraft, carrier positioning,…
Defence
The current escalation between the United States and Iran follows a strategic framework outlined in a 2009 Brookings Institution paper,…
Defence
A U.S. or Israeli strike on Iran would not be a contained military operation but a trigger for regional escalation, energy market shock, and accelerated nuclear proliferation. The risks extend far beyond Tehran and…
Economics
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Europe
Defence
Defence
Sanae Takaichi’s decision to describe a Taiwan contingency as a “survival-threatening situation” has pushed Japan–China tensions into legal and economic territory. Beijing answered with…
Diplomacy
Chinese diplomacy cannot be understood through the language of ideology alone. Behind Wang Yi’s measured tone and deliberate…
Arctic
The Arctic is no longer a distant frontier but an emerging economic corridor. As ice recedes and new…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
As Washington accelerates frontier AI and tightens chip controls, Beijing is building something different: a state-coordinated system that…
Journalism
Labour was founded to represent working people as a class, not to manage politics as a career. Yet by February…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Science is no longer limited to campuses. As AI and automation take over experimental work, discovery shifts to the corporations…