Yemen
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Yemen’s Counter-Blockade Brought the House of Saud to the Brink
The Yemeni Armed Forces have struck the heart of Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure, paralysed its airports, and seized the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, exposing the terminal vulnerability of a petro-state that can no longer export its oil or defend its skies. General Article | October 2026 The strategic equation in West Asia has undergone a… Continue reading
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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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Iran Wrote a Letter to the American People. Here’s What It Says.
How Iran is trying to build a constituency for peace inside the United States and why its claims about war, poverty, and presidential wealth deserve to be read Editorial Analysis |September 2026 The decision by Brigadier General Mohebbi of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to address the American people directly rather than communicating through diplomatic channels… Continue reading
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The Kingdom That Cannot Sell Its Oil: How Yemen and Iran Have Trapped Saudi Arabia
Riyadh’s export lifelines are severed, its allies are wavering, and its American patron has no spare capacity to save it Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The suspension of all crude oil loadings from the Red Sea port of Yanbu represents the most severe disruption to Saudi Arabia’s oil export capacity since the kingdom began exporting… Continue reading
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Yemen Just Changed the Rules of the War
Yemen’s Defense Minister Just Put Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Manama on Notice Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The statement by Major General Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi that the next battle will not remain in Yemen but will penetrate deep into the territories of the aggressor coalition nations was not an isolated rhetorical flourish from a marginal… 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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Order Out of Chaos: The Architecture of Permanent Conflict
An independent analysis of the post-9/11 order, its institutional drivers, and the material consequences of hegemonic overreach Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The comment that Benjamin Netanyahu made on the evening of 11 September 2001, when asked by the New York Times what the attacks meant for relations between the United States and Israel, has… Continue reading
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Trump Declines Direct Strikes as Houthis Tighten Hold on the Red Sea
Public reassurances in Dublin contrast with CENTCOM coordination in Riyadh and the shutdown of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline after the fall of Mokha General Article | September 2026 President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters in Dublin on 12 September after meeting Irish leaders, stated that the Houthis had contacted the United States and did not… Continue reading
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Yemen’s Ansarallah “aka Houthi’s” Take Mokha
The fall of Yemen’s last major western port brings Houthi forces within striking distance of the Bab el-Mandeb and exposes the limits of Saudi and American air power General Article | September 2026 Saudi Arabia poked a beehive. Yemeni forces aligned with Ansarallah have taken the Red Sea port city of Mokha and its airport,… Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia and the UAE Break Ranks in Yemen
How Saudi airstrikes on Emirati-linked arms exposed a quiet war inside the war The Saudi airstrike on Mukalla port at the end of December marked a rupture that had been forming inside the anti-Houthi camp for several years, though rarely acknowledged in public. The destruction of an Emirati-linked weapons shipment destined for the Southern Transitional… Continue reading
