Five years after Kabul fell, the Taliban have proved durable — but the discipline that won the war is hollowing out the state ...
India holds one of the largest rare earth reserve bases outside China and produces almost no magnets, and the distance ...
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland highlights how regional competition over the statelet is fusing conflict zones in the Middle East and Horn of Africa.
The significance of Iran’s BRICS bank bid is not in what it provides Tehran economically, but what it signals for the future of Iranian politics.
Beneath AI and autonomy lies a second contest: whose standards decide when an allied machine may act, and when its authority ...
Saudi Arabia’s maritime coalition would unite an otherwise fragmented regional security structure and defang Iran’s regional proxies, starting with the Houthis. But success won’t come easy.
The prospect of a Taiwan blockade by the PLA is increasingly floated as a less costly alternative to a full-on invasion of the island, but any blockade involves its own geopolitical risks. A response ...
Amid the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, Pakistan blames India for its water insecurity. A true audit of the crisis starts at home.
Russia’s Arctic buildup is a five-dimensional threat. Countering it means right-sizing Russia — neither paranoia nor ...
In April, Defence Minister David McGuinty told a Senate committee that Ottawa’s review of its F-35 purchase had no fixed conclusion date. “We are taking the necessary time to study very, very closely ...
The Iran war is changing Middle Eastern geopolitics. US bases across the Gulf have been repeatedly targeted and the US has been unable to open the Strait of Hormuz fully for maritime traffic and ...
China's PL-17 reaches nearly 400 km to hunt the tankers and AWACS that hold Western air power together — and US and European ...