Emerging Risks

There are signs that a new Hezbollah attack may be coming in the next few weeks. This time the context is a natural gas dispute between Lebanon and Israel now being mediated by the United States.

Two scientists said the American Physical Society had erred in evaluating their plan to use drones to shoot down North Korean long-range missiles.

The tempo of attacks reflects a more general readiness for confrontation as the region enters a new phase.

The Plan A simulation has been viewed more than one million times since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February.

Despite superior firepower, Russian forces have failed to fulfil their potential and face a dispiriting battle to regain the upper hand over Ukrainesia-Ukraine war: latest update

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The last time Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down face to face, they declared triumphantly the arrival of a "new era" in international relations.

Putin's favorite ideologue calls for total mobilization of Russia against decadent West

archived 18 Sep 2022 14:09:13 UTC

A U.S. president trumpeting the prowess of the American military is a familiar refrain but a new paper from the Mitchell Institute details an underfunded U.S. Air Force which may not be able to win against China.

archived 18 Sep 2022 06:53:45 UTC

Peter Zeihan "You Have No Idea What Is Coming"- It's Getting REALLY Serious#peterzeihan #zeihan Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is mad...

  This is a wake-up call. There is no other way to describe it. It is not about the IDF

The Collapse of Empiresby Peter Zeihan on September 15, 2022 The success of Ukrainian forces against Russian troops over the last week is forcing a series of...

The U.S. Department of Defense considers China the pacing threat to the United States as its military buildup, economic coercion, and political warfare threaten the U.S.-led world order that serves the interests of Americans.[1]

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Ukraine's ongoing ambitions to join the Western NATO military alliance presented a threat to Russia's security and highlighted the necessity for Russia to conduct what it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine.

If nothing is done within days, people in Somalia will start dying, according to the Red Cross. Experts say that lessons from previous famines have to be learned to prevent mass casualties.

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Medvedev then quoted Revelation 9:18: “A third of mankind was killed by these three plagues – by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone that came from the mouths of the horses.”

archived 14 Sep 2022 16:06:45 UTC

The West isn’t nearly prepared enough for the scale and complexity of China’s all-of-nation covert offensive.

The Russian president must now contend with an unusual level of criticism of his commanders’ competence in Ukraine.

There are others who talk to journalists but choose to keep their names and faces hidden. Many of these testimonies have wound up in the Russian opposition publication Vazhnye Istorii, which has conducted regular investigations and interviews with combat participants. Our command does not give a f**...

archived 13 Sep 2022 17:16:47 UTC

Trump national security adviser John Bolton on Monday said the threat of nuclear war with Russia is “a lot closer” than before. “Where we are now after this Ukraine success in the north is not that…

Iranian military leaders unveiled a new line of attack drones that they say were built with "unique capabilities that were considered specifically for targeting Haifa and Tel Aviv," two of Israel’s largest cities.

Rumors swirl that Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei is on his deathbed. This isn't the time nor place to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran.

archived 9 Sep 2022 11:47:37 UTC

NATO has declared Russia the "most significant and direct threat” to its members’ peace and security amid Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.