The Hormuz crisis sent European negotiators back to Baku. What they found was a partner of real strategic value and marginal volume: Azerbaijan still supplies under 4 percent of the EU's gas.
If the non-proliferation regime is to survive its present crisis, credible non-nuclear middle powers must move from supporting participants to agenda-setters.
The resilience of Iran’s economy is not an anomaly of internal fortitude, but a direct reflection of Beijing’s willingness to act as its ultimate economic guarantor.
Kaga now flies F-35Bs and Izumo is next. Why Japan’s carrier turn is less about the name on the hull than about flexibility, survivability, and the US alliance.
Afghanistan’s opium ban cut cultivation by 96%. Its effects on global narcotics markets, and on criminal revenues and profits, are far less certain.
Canada’s defense spending surge targets 125,000 new jobs by 2035. Unmanned systems, not autos, may be the industry that replaces what tariffs took.
As the border has grown increasingly unstable, Bangladesh now faces three worsening challenges involving the Arakan Army: ...
Thailand, Brazil and Colombia chose the Gripen over US fighters. The reason is not price or stealth, but who keeps a veto over the software.
Indonesia joined BRICS without publishing a roadmap. Without benchmarks, summit visibility risks substituting for the strategy that makes it pay.
ASEAN sent five members to the 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi. The cost may be the strategic ambiguity that made the bloc ...
Houthis seize Mocha and Perim, tightening the Bab al-Mandab as Saudi oil reroutes; Canada copies Ukraine's drone playbook; ...
Norway's defence minister says NATO doesn't lose Russian submarines. NATO's own spokesman is more cautious. Two cut cables are still unattributed.
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