Iran’s heat-seeking missiles are cheap, passive, and deadly—forcing US warplanes to rethink low-altitude operations after multiple losses.
Browsing: Security
Iran pounds Kuwait over US bases on its soil, hitting water plants. The 1991 security guarantee is now a liability.
Decapitation strikes failed. Iran’s decentralized Mosaic doctrine, Hormuz disruption, and regional proxies outlasted shock-and-awe, proving endurance defeats conventional superiority.
Excluding Türkiye from European defense guarantees failure. NATO’s 500,000-troop force plan needs Turkish and Ukrainian mass. EU-only cannot work.
Iran’s Bushehr reactor holds plutonium for 200 bombs. No near-real-time monitoring exists. The overlooked path to a weapon is already operational.
Washington bombs non-nuclear Iran but avoids confronting nuclear North Korea. Tehran has learned the lesson: nukes, not treaties, deter the US.
Gunfire at a free‑speech dinner united Trump and the press in fear. Political violence is reshaping democracy’s essential public rituals.
Iranian drones crippled Qatar’s LNG (17% offline, 5-year repair). Private industry needs legal authority to deploy electronic anti-drone defenses now.
AI targeting broke the laws of war. Algorithms that decide who dies cannot be cross-examined. Opaque, unchallengeable, devastating.
Hezbollah threatens to “turn country upside down” to block Lebanon-Israel peace. Talks could bring state sovereignty or internal collapse.