Iran’s Hormuz yuan play a direct hit on the petrodollar
The Strait of Hormuz has long been treated as a narrow maritime chokepoint with outsized strategic value. But in moments of crisis, it becomes something more than a shipping lane:...
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Sophisticated drones attacked Louisiana’s Barksdale bomber base
Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, in Bossier Parish not far from Shreveport, was attacked by drone swarms during the week of March 9. The attack disrupted B-52H aircraft launches...
Japan Is back – but not the version Washington wants
When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi planned her visit to the Oval Office, she was hoping to showcase something familiar: Japan’s renewed commitment to defense spending, alliance coordination, and economic...
Japan government’s sigh of relief over Takaichi summit performance
With Japan off for Vernal Equinox Day on Friday, March 20, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s summit with Donald Trump was effectively the only political story of the day. The Takaichi...
Forget Trump’s flailing — Iran’s the one without an endgame
Much has been written about President Donald Trump’s alleged lack of clearly defined goals and strategic objectives in the war with Iran. But the more pressing and consequential question has...
If India’s the enemy, why does Pakistan want ICBMs?
Warnings from US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard before the US Senate that Pakistan may be moving toward intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capability are raising new concerns about...
The British outpost that quietly holds more US debt than...
China, which was the largest holder of US government debt as recently as 2019, has cut its holdings to the lowest level since 2008, driven by changing trade patterns, geopolitical...
Save us, AI Walter Cronkite!
I’ve been writing some pessimistic things about AI recently, so I thought I should try to balance those out with some optimistic takes. One way I think AI could really help our society...
Lonely superpower: Trump Iran war and the end of American...
The United States currently finds itself in a state of strategic paralysis, caught between an administrative push for military confrontation and a wall of resistance that spans from its own...
Trump invited Silicon Valley into the US nuclear power regulator
This article was originally published by ProPublica. Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the...
