A Middle East Shield faces historical odds, funding gaps, and industrial limits as Washington pushes burden-sharing on skeptical regional partners.
Browsing: Israel
Settler violence has become a systemic failure, with 870 incidents in 2025 and prosecutions under seven percent despite rising Palestinian fatalities.
Israel’s election may replace Netanyahu, but Eisenkot and Bennett share his core security policies on Gaza, Iran, and Palestinian statehood.
Syria’s recovery is threatened by the Iran war’s energy crisis, fertilizer shortages, and Russian oil dependence despite lifted sanctions.
AI warfare promises fewer civilian deaths, but expert testimony reveals more targets, lower accuracy, and gutted harm-reduction training.
Israel and Morocco upgrade to full embassies, cementing a defense partnership reshaping North Africa amid migration and rivalries
Hezbollah recast its Ali Al Taher defeat as attrition, shifting narrative through five phases while Israel dismantled the tunnel complex.
Attrition Warfare grinds wars into endurance contests as three gaps—power, technology, and politics—defy decisive outcomes and demand new thinking.
Trump vows to stop Iran’s bomb while ignoring AI risks, yet bombing cannot erase knowledge and AI lacks a centrifuge
Turkey, Pakistan, and Qatar emerged as Iran War Winners by making themselves indispensable to Washington without firing a shot.