He Jun and Chan Kung The war between Russia and Ukraine has lasted 35 days since it began on February 24. For a long time, Russia has had the image and influence as a great power, which is mainly reflected in its military strength, and in its 2,000 …
Read More »Direct Energy Weapons and Hyper-Sonic Armaments: The Future of Warfare in the Indian Context
Aakarshan Singh A Direct Energy Weapon or DEW is weaponry that uses highly focused energy, such as lasers, microwaves, or particle beams, to demolish, harm, impede or decapitate its target. DEW is a long-ranged weapon that damages its targets with highly focused energy. Lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and …
Read More »Analyzing Vladimir Putin: Is Joe Biden Dealing With A “Normal” Adversary?
Prof. Louis Peres Assessing an adversarial head of state is not usually a psychiatric task. For the most part, such high-value strategic appraisals need not be directed by any deliberate search for “abnormality.” Among other things, this means dispensing with any tangible differentiations between “normal” and “abnormal.” This …
Read More »Why is SME Economic Sector Growth in Trouble?
Naseem Javed The Caution: Let this be clarified, new job creation demands a job creation mindset and not the job seeker mindset. What is the difference and what are the root causes of lingering economic problems of the free world? SME sector growth is a unique performance carried out …
Read More »Global Economy under the New Mutated Variants of Covid-19
The global outlook remains surrounded by a great deal of uncertainty, more than a year and a half (December 1, 2019, according to the World Health Organization) after the outbreak of the pandemic and the emergence of new mutated virus strains. Huge human losses and economic crises, contrary …
Read More »The development of cyber warfare in the United States
Giancarlo Elia Valori In December 2021 the U.S. Navy announced the authorization of an additional transaction agreement with Advanced Technology International (ATI) to manage the second part of the Information Warfare Research Program (IWRP 2). As part of the consortium’s management of IWRP 2 activities, ATI will provide …
Read More »Saudi Arabia targets a more Republican Washington
James M. Dorsey Rather than push for an immediate improvement of strained relations with the United States, Saudi Arabia appears to be looking forward to a time when US President Joe Biden’s wings may be clipped. The kingdom seems to be betting on a better reception in Washington …
Read More »The North-South transport corridor is a trans-civilizational integration project
Andrew Korybko he NSTC represents the physical convergence of Russia’s southern-focused grand strategic plans of balancing the Iranian-Pakistani anchors of its Ummah Pivot in this particular part of the supercontinent with the Neo-NAM that it’s jointly pursuing with India. The trans-civilizational optics are immensely important since they speak …
Read More »Ukraine war unleashing a ‘perfect storm’ of crises
On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres presented the first detailed policy brief issued by the Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance (GCRG), which he set up to study the effects of the war in Ukraine on the world’s most vulnerable. Here is a summary of …
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