Mineral Resources
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Two Fronts, One Strategic Architecture
How RAND’s Russia strategy and Brookings’ Iran strategy were written into the wars that followed RAND Corporation is not an independent commentator sitting outside the American state. It is a federally funded research and development centre that has operated under standing contract to the US Army, the Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary… Continue reading
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America’s Terrorist Pipeline For War with China
Two recent decisions to remove designated terrorist organisations from US lists sit inside a longer pattern of tactical realignment against China and Russia National Public Radio published a lengthy feature on 17 May 2026 profiling Uyghur fighters who helped topple the Assad government in Syria, describing them through interviews conducted in Idlib and Jisr al-Shughur… Continue reading
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America at Two Hundred and Fifty- A Spectacle of Decline and Questions Over Who Actually Rules
Food stamps, opioid deaths and a cage fight on the White House lawn, read against rival theories of American power On 14 June 2026, President Donald Trump marked his eightieth birthday and the run-up to the semiquincentennial of American independence with a mixed martial arts card staged on the South Lawn of the White House,… Continue reading
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Washington’s Widening Front Against Multipolarism
Three theatres – Iran, Ukraine, and now the Philippines – one recurring pattern of escalation dressed as restraint On 21 June 2026, American aircraft struck the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites in Iran, an operation Donald Trump ordered after months of on-again, off-again negotiation. A ceasefire followed on 24 June, and on 17 June… Continue reading
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The United States Exploits Information Vulnerability to Topple Nations
How the systematic weaponisation of media, civil society, and algorithmic infrastructure has supplanted conventional military force as the decisive instrument of geopolitical competition Editorial Analysis | June 2026 I. The Redefinition of Sovereignty in the Information Age Sovereignty, in the framework inherited from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, rested on territorial integrity, military capacity, and… Continue reading
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Information Space Has Become the Decisive Battleground of 21st-Century Conflict
How the United States Exploits Information Vulnerability to Capture Nations and Why Securing Information Space is the Most Urgent National Security Imperative General News Article | June 2026 The past quarter-century of geopolitical history has been defined by a transformation that has largely escaped the attention of conventional strategic analysis. While military planners, diplomats, and… Continue reading
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The Price Of Industrial Strategy
How China Built a Global Electric Vehicle Industry Through State Capitalism, and How Washington Answered with Tariff Wall Editorial Analysis | June 2026 (This headline image is the Geely Geome Xingyuan is a compact hatchback that sells for under $10,000) I. The Industrial Reset: China’s EV Strategy from 2009 When China formally identified new energy… Continue reading
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Armenia Regime-Changed Without A Shot Fired
How the 2018 Velvet Revolution Exemplifies the US Strategy of Political Capture of a Sovereign Country The March 1992 leak of the Defense Planning Guidance to the New York Times revealed a strategic vision that would shape American foreign policy for three decades. The document, prepared by Paul Wolfowitz’s policy office, asserted that the United… Continue reading
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Putin’s Limited War in Ukraine Has Prolonged the Conflict
Military pressure has intensified, yet the Kremlin still avoids full mobilisation and total war methods, leaving Russia trapped between battlefield advantage and political caution Vladimir Putin has chosen to fight in Ukraine without fully fighting a war in the classical sense. Russian operations have been large, destructive, and sustained, yet they have remained constrained by… Continue reading
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The Extension of Empire – Israel as America’s Forward Military Arm
How US logistical support, intelligence sharing, and operational integration make Israeli military action inseparable from American strategic objectives Introduction: The Question of Agency Among the most persistent fictions in contemporary geopolitical commentary is the proposition that Israel acts as an independent military power, capable of initiating and sustaining major military operations without American approval or… Continue reading
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