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Developments in the Ukraine war over the past several months are creating the need to consider the possibility of a frozen conflict. The term refers to a condition in which active hostilities cease ...

Iran's Quds Force recruits, trains, compartmentalizes, and outsources just like any serious clandestine service.

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China’s lesson for the West is not to find a perfect system, but to build institutions capable of recognizing when their core ...

The significance of Iran’s BRICS bank bid is not in what it provides Tehran economically, but what it signals for the future ...

The quantum arms race's real question isn't who can demonstrate a quantum effect, but who can prove advantage over the best classical alternative.

Washington is using coercion and rewards to drive a wedge between China and Latin American states. The early results are ...

Armenia’s 2026 election shows how political competition and external security pressures shape both democratic consolidation ...

Washington built its Arab security network to contain Iran. Now the costs of defending that system are flowing back to the ...