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Saudi Arabia’s $83 Billion Military Spending Has Failed to Buy Victory Against the Houthis
The kingdom has spent billions on American weapons, relied on foreign contractors and mercenaries, and deployed the most advanced air defence systems in the region. It still cannot hold ground against a militia it has been fighting for over a decade. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 Saudi Arabia’s military budget for 2025 reached approximately $83… Continue reading
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How the United States Is Using Proxies to Destroy the AI Infrastructure of Its Rivals
The strikes on Yandex facilities in Russia reveal a strategic campaign to degrade the technological foundations of multipolar competitors while the Atlantic alliance fractures and the diesel deal buys time for further aggression Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The United States is directing Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centres as part of a systematic… Continue reading
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Is the US Insurgency Strategy Against Iran Now in Play?
How Brookings’ Which Path to Persia? envisaged support for armed opposition and what the escalating insurgency in Sistan and Baluchestan reveals about the wider campaign against Tehran. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The escalation of armed violence in Sistan and Baluchestan during 2026 corresponds precisely to a strategic option formally examined in the Brookings Institution’s… Continue reading
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The Generals in Kiev: Die for the Alliance, But Don’t Ask to Join
NATO alliance’s top military body visited Ukraine to show solidarity while the US says membership that would require them to defend Ukraine is “not on the table” Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The NATO Military Committee’s visit to Kiev on 7 October 2026, the first such visit in eight years, constitutes a strategic communication exercise… Continue reading
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The Empire That Would Rather Burn Itself Than Share the World
An independent analysis of the 1992 Wolfowitz Doctrine, the RAND multi-domain strategy, and the structural reasons why a declining hegemon may attempt to topple the game board rather than accept a multipolar world Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, drafted under the supervision of Paul Wolfowitz and leaked to the New… Continue reading
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America Pulled Out of Two Arms Treaties. It Backfired Spectacularly.
An independent analysis of how the United States dismantled the ABM and INF treaties, why the resulting weapons systems have failed to restore strategic advantage, and what the production disparities reveal about the class interests driving American militarism Editorial Analysis | September 2026 America Pulled Out of Two Arms Treaties. It Backfired Spectacularly. An independent… Continue reading
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The Brookings Repertoire and the Manufacture of the Iran War
An independent analysis of the strategic repertoire that produced the 2026 Iran war, the institutional networks that sustained it across seventeen years, and the material contradictions that now threaten its architects Editorial Analysis | September 2026 Crafting a durable policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran has confounded every American administration since the revolution of… Continue reading
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