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17 July 2025

Anatomy of an Insurgency: Balochistan’s Crisis and Pakistan’s Failures

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Source Link Balochistan is Pakistan’s largest province, comprising 44 percent of the country’s territory, yet it has a relatively small popu...

The Implications for Global Governance of China and Russia’s Post-2022 Alignment

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Evgeny Roshchin Source Link Executive Summary The political alignment of China and Russia is best defined as a friendship rather than a clas...

The Enshittification of American Power

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Source Link For decades, allies of the United States lived comfortably amid the sprawl of American hegemony. They constructed their financia...

Putin’s Game of War-Making and Bargaining Comes to End

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Source Link Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fake readiness to negotiate the end of Moscow’s war against Ukraine amid its relentless attac...

Countering Russian Cruise Missiles and Long-Range Drones

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Source Link Over the past week, Russia has launched over 1,800 Geran-2 (the indigenized version of the Iranian Shahed-136) alongside decoy ...

Iran and the Logic of Limited Wars

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Raphael S. Cohen, Source Link Israel’s air war against Iran—“Operation Rising Lion”—may be over, but the controversy surrounding the attacks...

From Tanks to TikTok: Adapting Article 5 for Graduated Responses to Hybrid Warfare

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Ciprian Clipa  Source Link The Soviet-era bronze statue in Tallinn was relocated long ago, but the cyberattack it precipitated in 2007 has o...

Drones Are The New “Bullets”! U.S. Plans To Leapfrog Rivals With Low-Cost Drones In Radical Policy Shift

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Sumit Ahlawat Source Link Treat drones like bullets and “small munitions more than high-end airplanes.” This was the most crucial message fr...

Russia’s Taliban Recognition Signals Potential Domino Effect

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Islomkhon Gafarov Source Link The Russian Federation’s formal recognition of the Taliban government on July 3 may fundamentally reshape the...

Why Force Fails to Stop Nuclear Proliferation

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Source Link For a third time in four decades, warplanes have tried to bomb a Middle Eastern nuclear program into submission. The most recent...

Is America Breaking the Global Economy?

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Source Link The global economy is, to put it mildly, in a state of flux. Before the most recent U.S. elections, it was already being buffete...

Digitize or die: Ukraine’s war is a wake-up call for 20th century militaries

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Kateryna Chernohorenko Source Link A Ukrainian serviceman uses the internet on his smartphone at a base in the Donetsk region on February 23...

In His Own Words: How Trump Changed His Tone on Putin and the War in Ukraine

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Minho Kim Source Link President Trump’s harsh words in recent days about President Vladimir V. Putin marked a sharp break from the striking...

Open Dialogue | Li Cheng and Andy Browne discuss what Trump gets wrong about China and where next for ties

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Source Link Welcome to Open Dialogue, a new series from the Post where we bring together leading voices to discuss the stories and subjects ...

Under Attack by Trump’s Tariffs, Asian Countries Seek Out Better Friends

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Lydia DePillis Source Link For most countries that received President Trump’s letters last week threatening steep tariffs, especially the As...

Partners in Deterrence: China and Russia’s Deepening Military-Technical Ties

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Daniel Balazs Source Link In early May, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Moscow to meet with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and to p...

America Beware: China Is Planning to Churn Out New Fighter Jets Like iPhones

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Brandon J. Weichert Source Link Heaven help the Americans if great power war ever comes to their doorstep. The United States’ biggest geostr...

The US Airstrikes Won’t Stop Iran’s Proxy Wars

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Stephen Cimbala, and Lawrence J. Korb Source Link The US military strikes against Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities in late June present...

Marco Rubio Drops the Hammer

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Charlton Allen Source Link In a long-overdue repudiation of international lawfare cloaked as human rights work, U.S. Secretary of State Marc...

Netanyahu is playing Trump with his ridiculous Nobel peace prize nomination

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Source Link “Benjamin Netanyahu nominates Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize”– that headline seems to have been pulled straight out of the...

A new strategy for destroying Hamas?

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David Horovitz Source Link US President Donald Trump wants to end the war in Gaza as soon as possible. “We’ve got to get that solved,” he to...

Independent Thinking: One year hard Labour: Why is the UK so difficult to govern?

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Source Link After a crisis week for Britain’s ruling Labour Party, host Bronwen Maddox and Chatham House’s Olivia Sullivan are joined by eco...

AI is polluting truth in journalism. Here’s how to disrupt the misinformation feedback loop.

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Susan D’Agostino  Source Link As a journalist, I’ve spent years reporting on artificial intelligence. I’ve traveled to four continents to i...

Tailored and Time Constrained: Key Considerations for Military Innovators

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Christopher Jordan  Source Link Those who innovate well find success, while those who do not become cautionary tales. When discussing milita...

The Human Element

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Andrew Latham Source Link In the 1990s, the military world buzzed with the promise of a "Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA), he...
16 July 2025

Senate panel pushing DOD on strategy to deter Chinese cyber activity on critical infrastructure

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Mark Pomerleau Source Link The Senate Armed Services Committee is proposing legislation that would require the Department of Defense to deve...

Tokyo, Manila moves arouse Chinese concerns about Asian mini NATO

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Cherry Hitkari Source Link Manila’s adoption of Japan’s “one theater concept” has further escalated tensions with China. Proposed in March ...

PLA Military Aerospace Force: On the Frontier of Innovation and Competition

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John Costello Source Link the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) eliminated the Strategic Support Force (SSF; 战略支援部队). It reconstituted its subo...

China’s Global Hegemony Strategy

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Source Link Analyzing China’s understanding of global hegemony requires understanding not only its current foreign policy practices but also...

Misinformation lends itself to social contagion – here’s how to recognize and combat it

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Source Link In 2019, a rare and shocking event in the Malaysian peninsula town of Ketereh grabbed international headlines . Nearly 40 girls ...