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Trump's Last-Minute Halt: Strategy, Caution, or Capitulation?

Trump’s repeated threats followed by last-minute retreats risk turning American deterrence into a paper tiger, encouraging adversaries to test Washington’s resolve. Pulling back from the brink may avert war today, but inconsistency could prove costlier tomorrow.
Taut Bataut
Маккиндер и спикман

Mackinder’s Heartland vs Spykman’s Rimland: Neither Is Winning for the “Motherland”!

For anyone still selling the West’s grand strategy as a coherent product, is that the framework itself has aged worse than either of its authors could have imagined. Mackinder and Spykman were writing about a world where land power and sea power were mutually exclusive career choices.
Tamer Mansour

Bulgaria's Bezmer Base and the Logic of American Power Projection

On July 22, 2026, the Bulgarian parliament voted to authorize the deployment of up to eight U.S. Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft and 250 U.S. military personnel at Bezmer Air Base.
Adrian Korczyński

Greater Israel and the Real Deal! Why the Middle East Is Drifting Toward a War Nobody Wants?

Jeffrey Silverman
Аразский коридор и проект TRIPP

Reasons for Tehran’s increased interest in the Aras Corridor

Samyar Rostami

The Mediterranean's New Front: Libya and Europe's Expanding Security Challenge

Phil Butler
авиаудар США по опреснительной установке в деревне Бонджи

When Washington uses water as a weapon of war, blurring the line between military strategy and war crime

Mohamed Lamine KABA
Germany's Staatsräson Doctrine

Germany's Staatsräson Has Become an Extra-Legal Doctrine

Ricardo Martins
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