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Goodbye Indo-Pacific, hello first island chain!
Asia-Pacific

Goodbye Indo-Pacific, hello first island chain!

USPACOM's rebranding marks a new strategy, along with the rise of the “Squad” — the US, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines — to check China's power

​Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi
Middle East

Iraq PM embraces his inner Michael Corleone — for the best of reasons

Ali Al Zaidi has launched an unprecedented but much needed crackdown on figures tied to the country's massively corrupt patronage system

Hormuz chokepoint? Turkey wants to be king of the Middle Corridor
Middle East

Hormuz chokepoint? Turkey wants to be king of the Middle Corridor

The Iran war has hastened the development of a new route in which Ankara becomes a hub and magnifies its importance to the region

Space attack laser
Military Industrial Complex

Israel wants to build space attack lasers now

'We must be the leading country in the world with this capability,' says Israeli Defense Minister Katz

NATO Summit 2025
Europe

NATO Summit: Time to take the transatlantic crisis by the horns

The problem didn't begin with Trump, but there is no better moment than now to pursue real burden shifting for the future of European security

China Russia navy
Asia-Pacific

Thinking twice about that US-China superwar

Imagine a globe-spanning naval battle with both sides interdicting commerce, a collapse in Asian trade, mounting losses, far worse than the current Iran war