Op-ed

Ankit Panda Thinking through new information about the May 2025 India-Pakistan clash. For this issue, I wanted to turn my attention back to the May 2025 crisis between India and Pakistan. As a quick recap, the two countries—the great entrepreneurs of the nuclear age on conventional war under …

Namrata Goswami China defines space superiority as achieving space logistics and infrastructure, and then using them for the kind of war it might fight.   This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera …

Evan Ellis Introduction In February 2026, Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi made a state visit to Beijing, signing numerous nontransparent cooperation agreements advancing collaboration with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on meat and fish meal exports. Many other agreements were nonpublic and in sensitive areas such as science …

By Dr. Dan Steinbock              The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has produced precisely the kind of strategic blowback that earlier Israeli and American war-gaming had warned against. So, why the escalation? Iran has not collapsed, while Hormuz has become a global economic choke point. The central failure was not …

An Interview with Hadi Elis by AsiaOne News — August 13, 2026 AsiaOne News: The Middle East is experiencing a profound transformation in its security environment, with the U.S.–Iran conflict, the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement involving Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Türkiye, and the continuing crisis surrounding the Strait …

J. Morgan Turkey and Israel do not appear, at least for now, to be willing to test the limits of their military power against each other inside Syria. Yet recent developments suggest that the two countries are moving steadily closer to a more dangerous zone in which strategic …

Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh The Arab world today appears increasingly fragmented, with individual states carrying their own crises while struggling to exercise collective influence. From Gaza to Doha, the region is experiencing a profound strategic vacuum in which traditional alliances are being tested and new alignments are emerging. The …

The 2026 Democratic primary season is producing a political development that would have been difficult to imagine only a few years ago: progressive candidates are winning nominations in contests marked by heavy outside spending, while opposition to political-action-committee money, criticism of Israel, and resistance to U.S. policy toward …

The global race for critical minerals is rapidly becoming one of the defining economic and geopolitical competitions of the twenty-first century. The European Union risks entering that competition from a position of weakness. While Washington and Beijing are moving aggressively to secure access to the minerals required for …