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Ukraine's Long-Range Strikes are Hurting Russia. Now it Needs a Plan to Retake Territory
Strikes on refineries impose costs, but Russia will adapt. The case for a "drone blitz": massing drones and ground robots on a narrow front to rupture Russian defences and restore manoeuvre.Illya Sekirin · 11 Jul · 9 min read
Mali Proves It. Russia's Africa Strategy is Collapsing.
Coordinated rebel attacks across Mali are exposing the limits of Russia's security strategy and the fragility of Bamako's northern campaign.Paweł Wójcik · 8 Jul · 12 min read
Drones are Transforming the Sahel Conflict. Here's How
From Ukraine-trained Tuareg rebels to jihadists flying captured quadcopters, the Sahel's insurgents are outpacing the juntas — and the decisive weapon so far is the camera overhead, not the bomb.Brant Philip · 6 Jul · 10 min read
Europe's Nuclear Energy Revival Comes with Hidden Vulnerabilities
From Kazakh mines in the Kremlin's orbit to Soviet-era reactors locked into Russian fuel, Europe's €241 billion nuclear bet runs through Moscow — and neither SMRs nor Washington offer a way out.Leo Feypel · 4 Jul · 15 min read
NATO Needs to Dronify or Die
A veteran drone operator advising Ukraine's high command argues that drones have made battlefields transparent and massed forces suicidal — and that NATO's token spending leaves it years behind Russia.Illya Sekirin · 1 Jul · 9 min read
Exaggerating its Advances is Costing the Russian Army Dearly. Here's How.
When Gerasimov told Putin that Kupiansk had fallen, every Russian decision afterward treated the fiction as fact — and Ukraine now quietly exploits an army that punishes honest reporting.Phil Cowin · 29 Jun · 13 min read
Europe's Biofuel Push is Expensive. It Also Makes Strategic Sense
The F-35 now flies on fuel made from cooking oil and crop waste — and for a continent importing 97% of its crude through vulnerable chokepoints, that is an insurance policy, not a climate gesture.Tiago Machado · 27 Jun · 14 min read
Is the United Kingdom Becoming Ungovernable?
Seven prime ministers in a decade is not proof the country cannot be governed — it is proof the route to power now filters out anyone capable of the state-building Britain actually needs.Oli Carpenter · 24 Jun · 9 min read
To Mobilize or Not to Mobilize: Will Russia See A New Wave of Military Mobilization in 2026?
Sign-up bonuses topping $41,500 can no longer fill Russia's ranks, and Ukraine's drone campaign is bleeding men, fuel, and trucks — leaving Putin one option he has dodged since 2022.Jompy · 22 Jun · 17 min read
Colombia’s Election Is a Second Plebiscite on Peace
Ten years after the FARC accord, armed groups hold 37% of Colombia — and a runoff between a Bukele-style hardliner and the deal's own "plumber" will decide whether the state fights or negotiates.Rafael Vargas Castellar · 19 Jun · 14 min read
Israel is the Iran War's Biggest Loser
Netanyahu sold Trump a quick regime-change campaign; instead Israel got a hardened Tehran, a US-Iran deal that guts its nuclear case, and Washington pressing it to quit Lebanon.Kyle Moran · 17 Jun · 17 min read
The Egypt-Ethiopia Cold War is Key to the Horn’s Growing Conflicts
Locked in a struggle over the Nile and Red Sea, Cairo is ringing Ethiopia with allies while Addis arms proxies in Sudan — a contest that threatens to fuse the Horn's separate wars into one.Liam Karr · 15 Jun · 12 min readShow 12 more
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