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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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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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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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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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The Colour Revolution Playbook
How the US Captures Nations Without Firing a Shot to Disrupt Multipolarism, Extend Russia, Contain Iran and China The February 1992 draft of the Defense Planning Guidance, leaked to the New York Times and published on March 8, 1992, articulated a strategic vision that has shaped American foreign policy for three decades. The document, prepared… Continue reading
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Is South Africa Witnessing a Colour Revolution?
Analysing South Africa’s March and March movement through the lens of regime change doctrine South Africa occupies a unique position in the global order. It is the only country in the BRICS+ world where the colonial management class never actually left. Political power was transferred in 1994, but the land, the mines, the banks, the… Continue reading
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Indonesia Unrest: From Hormuz to Malacca, the Next Front?
How Washington’s pursuit of maritime dominance, from the Persian Gulf to Southeast Asia, is reshaping the geopolitical fate of the world’s fourth most populous nation and why Jakarta’s modest gestures of independence have already attracted familiar consequences Editorial Analysis | 16 June 2026 The American and Israeli strikes on Iran, launched on 28 February 2026,… Continue reading
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The Unipolar Machine: A Geopolitical Analysis of the United States Senate Hearing on Indo-Pacific Command, April 2026
How a United States Senate hearing revealed the machinery of permanent war, energy blackmail, the consumption of proxies and the making of a new Asian front For most people who follow international affairs, the daily news cycle provides a sense of orientation. Headlines announce wars, peace talks, diplomatic summits, and military mobilisations. Politicians stand behind… Continue reading
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Cuba in the Face of Economic Blockade
Economic coercion, financial dominance, regime change policy, and Cuban state resilience within a prolonged asymmetric conflict For more than six decades the United States has maintained a comprehensive system of economic coercion against Cuba that began under Dwight D. Eisenhower and was consolidated under John F. Kennedy following the failed invasion at the Bay of… Continue reading
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