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Why the Middle East Needs a New Collective Defense Arrangement After the Iran War

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic Adversariesair and missile defense, conventional military integration, Deterrence, extended deterrence, Gulf States, integrated intelligence, integrated missile defense, interoperability, Iran war, Israel, maritime security, Middle East, missile and drone attacks, nuclear umbrella, proliferation, radar and sensor networks, regional stability, security architecture, strategic consultation

Why the Middle East Needs a New Collective Defense Arrangement After the Iran War

Natalie Treloar0 Comments

Published: September 1, 2026 The Iran War may eventually end through a ceasefire, an interim agreement, or a broader diplomatic settlement. Regardless of how the fighting stops, one thing has become impossible to ignore.…

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Redrawn Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean: Türkiye’s New Legal Moves

Archive, Defense & Security, Economics & Trade, Emerging Threats, Government & PoliticsAegean Sea, Blue Homeland doctrine, Deterrence, eastern Mediterranean, EastMed pipeline, energy resources, Exclusive Economic Zone, geopolitical competition, geopolitical realism, geopolitical strategies, Greece, international law, international waters, Islands, islets, Lausanne Treaty, legal framework, legal frameworks, Libya, maritime delimitation, maritime jurisdiction, maritime strategy, militarization, natural gas, Paris Treaty, regional balance of power. , regional security, revisionism, rocks, security architecture, security vacuum, sovereignty, territorial waters, Turkish parliament, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Redrawn Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean: Türkiye’s New Legal Moves

Nazım Fatsa0 Comments

Published: June 29, 2026 An Exclusive Economic Zone does not grant absolute territorial sovereignty to a coastal state. However, it secures the exclusive rights of a coastal state to explore…

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Archive, Strategic Adversariesair denial, alliance fragmentation, alliance politics, Arab nations, Bahrain, chokepoints, coalition lessons., coalitions, confidence-building, counterintelligence, defense investments, Deterrence, Egypt, five eyes, GCC, geostrategy, Gulf Cooperation Council, Gulf States, Here is a comma-separated list of keywords derived from the document: Middle East, Intelligence, intelligence warfare, interoperability, Iran, Israel, Kuwait, Levant, MENA, MESA, Middle East Strategic Alliance, military innovations, military intelligence, military readiness, multi-domain operations, natural resources, North Africa, persian gulf, political reconciliation, psychological operations, PSYOPS, Qatar blockade, regional security, Saudi Arabia, security architecture, Strategic Alliances, strategic differences, surveillance, Syria, technical expertise, threat assessment, trade passages, Turkey, UAE, United States, weapons systems, Yemen

A Counterintelligence Profile: Are High-Fliers Ready?

Hamza Chaudhary0 Comments

Published: May 7, 2026 For the geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), it is a time of great anxiety. With the non-Arab actors engaging in another tense…

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The European Dilemma: Five Percent and Manpower

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Strategic Adversariesburden sharing, conscription, defense budget, defense expenditure, Donald Trump, European rearmament, European Union, financial aid, manpower, military downsizing, military service, NATO, peacekeepers, peacekeeping troops, reconstruction, security architecture, Ukraine war, Vladimir Putin, welfare states., Xi Jin Ping

The European Dilemma: Five Percent and Manpower

Amit Gupta1 Comment

The Europeans have reacted with shock and dismay at President Donald Trump’s initiatives on settling the Ukraine war. The president is wisely keeping the Europeans out of any negotiations with…

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