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Daily Memo: Israeli Anxieties About Turkey

Anxious about Turkey. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Donald Trump in...

Turkey’s Ascent as a Defense Industrial Player

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(click to enlarge) Turkey’s defense industry is expanding rapidly. The country became the world’s 11th-largest supplier of arms exports recently, while its share of global...

The Race for Energy Security

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(click to enlarge) The International Energy Agency released its 2026 energy investment report, highlighting the key investment regions and sectors as the world continues to...

Expanding the Copperbelt’s Atlantic Export Routes

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(click to enlarge) U.S. strategy toward African critical minerals is changing rapidly. The United States’ Millennium Challenge Corporation has agreed to expand the use of...

Iran War Drains US Oil Reserves

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(click to enlarge) The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve remains one of Washington’s most important tools for managing energy-market disruptions, but the Iran war has exposed...

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George Answers Your Questions: A Strange Article from Tass and The Conception and Birth of the United States

A Strange Article from Tass July 6, 2026 Question: The Russians have been fighting with one hand tied behind their backs for years, because they haven't...

Russia’s Size and Centralization Become Liabilities

This week, a drone threat was declared for the first time ever in the...

The Red Sea: A Strategic Basin Far Beyond the Houthi Threat

Security in the Red Sea basin is often boiled down to one thing: the...

The Coming Defense Boom

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Adam Smith and the Defense Industry

Adam Smith was the father of modern economics. As laid out in his book...

Washington’s Quiet Return to the Sahel

The United States is edging back into the junta-led Sahelian states from which it...

A Strange Article From Tass

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The Conception and the Birth of the United States

In my mind, the United States was conceived 250 years ago on July 4,...

Rolling Back Iran: Why Iraq Is the Decisive Front

The U.S. attack on Iran in late February, besides preventing the country from acquiring...

China Makes Its Move in Bangladesh

Tarique Rahman, who became Bangladesh’s prime minister in February, was in Beijing last week...

Russia’s Misreading of America First

By Andrew Ryvkin Moscow has pursued a multipolar world order to replace the era of...

A Critical Moment for Russia

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The Ukrainian military has been attacking Russian energy infrastructure for some time now, so...
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George Answers Your Questions: A Strange Article from Tass and The Conception and Birth of the United States

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US Bargaining With China and Russia

With the arrival of the second Trump administration, great power competition is at an inflection point. Both Russia and China face internal crises that...

American Naval Policy and China

Editor’s note: If it feels as though the world is changing, that’s because it is. Global economic reconfiguration, demographic decline and geopolitical realignment have...

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Daily Memo: High Hopes for US-Turkey Meeting

Hopeful meeting. Turkey is optimistic that Tuesday’s meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump in Ankara could mark a turning...

Washington’s Quiet Return to the Sahel

The United States is edging back into the junta-led Sahelian states from which it was evicted just a couple of years ago, but this...

The Race for Energy Security

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(click to enlarge) The International Energy Agency released its 2026 energy investment report, highlighting the key investment regions and sectors as the world continues to...

Daily Memo: Australia-Fiji Defense Deal, US-Russia Negotiations

Competition for the South Pacific. Australia and Fiji signed a mutual defense agreement during Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s visit to Fiji’s capital, Suva....

A Strange Article From Tass

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The Conception and the Birth of the United States

In my mind, the United States was conceived 250 years ago on July 4, 1776, with the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in...