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March 13, 2026

(click to enlarge) The European economy failed to sustain its modest momentum in the fourth quarter of 2025, with growth slowing to 0.2 percent compared...

Daily Memo: US Eases Russian Oil Sanctions

March 13, 2026

Temporary relief. The United States decided to temporarily lift sanctions on Russian oil currently at sea to ease the economic fallout of the war...

Iran’s Doctrine of Protracted War

March 13, 2026

The war between Iran and the U.S.-Israeli coalition is unlikely to produce a rapid or decisive outcome. Rather than a short campaign defined by...

Daily Memo: US Deployment, Kurdish Concerns

March 12, 2026

Reinforcement. The United States will send up to 500 troops to Romania to support the U.S. operation in Iran. The Romanian parliament on Wednesday...

How the Iran War Creates a New Strategic Environment

March 12, 2026

A change has come to the Iranian government. While airpower alone is unlikely to take down the regime, it will never be the same...

Daily Memo: Oil Markets and Shipping Disruptions

March 11, 2026

Relief ahead? Member countries of the International Energy Agency unanimously agreed to release 400 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves to help...

A Summary of the Iran War, So Far

March 11, 2026

Wars can be viewed by historians later, but while they are raging and facts and lies compete for attention, it’s hard to understand what’s...

Daily Memo: Commercial Shipping and the Conflict in Iran

March 10, 2026

Tehran's reprisals. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it would allow passage through the Strait of Hormuz to Arab or European countries that expel...

The Eclipse of the Islamic Republic

March 10, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump last week demanded an unconditional Iranian surrender to end the joint U.S.-Israeli operation that started on Feb. 28. For the...

Daily Memo: New Iranian Supreme Leader, Warnings From Neighbors

March 9, 2026

Successor chosen. Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was selected by Iran’s Council of Experts to be the...

In Iran, Airpower Has Its Limits

March 9, 2026

Modern warfare increasingly assumes that control of air and space decides the outcomes of conflicts. And it’s true that precision strikes, surveillance networks and...