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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 4, 2026

Toplines Russian President Vladimir Putin used a staged meeting with several Russian commanders on July 3 to make greatly exaggerated claims of Russian advances that do not match battlefield realities in order to construct a narrative of continuous Russian military successes. Putin met with the Russian Chief of the General …

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L’OTAN 3.0

Les temps sont durs pour tous ceux qui ont toujours critiqué l’OTAN. De l’époque de la “défense du monde libre” contre le communisme, en passant par celle des “interventions humanitaires” et de la “guerre mondiale contre le terrorisme”, jusqu’à la lutte prétendument existentielle d’aujourd’hui contre la quasi-totalité du monde non …

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Is Iran becoming a post-Islamic society?

Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding that has not stopped the exchange of fire in the Gulf but has already produced a renewed and more aggressive repression campaign inside Iran. This crackdown can be understood as the regime’s response to Iranians who had begun to imagine what their …

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The End of Hamas

The consensus among analysts is that Hamas is down, but hardly out. The group may be badly battered, but it has been around since 1987, and in that time, it has been repeatedly attacked by Israel and has always grown back. The conditions that gave rise to the organization—occupation, dispossession, …

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The Failure of Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Emergence of a New Middle Eastern Security Order

Israel’s recent regional strategy has exposed significant limitations in achieving its long-term foreign policy objectives, illustrating the widening gap between military operations and strategic success. While Iran’s resilience and diplomatic positioning have accelerated the emergence of a more multipolar and diplomatically driven Middle Eastern security order. Carl von Clausewitz once …

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The US War on Iran Continues

The US continues to playact diplomacy with Iran regarding the latest “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) signed, then immediately violated by the US, renegotiated, and supposedly agreed upon again — using the pause in all-out war to carefully shape the battlefield ahead of what will inevitably be another round of large-scale …

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Iran Update Special Report, June 30, 2026

Key Takeaways Iranian officials are simultaneously employing diplomatic outreach and military coercion to pressure regional states to support a new “regional security mechanism,” likely to advance Iran’s long-standing objective of expelling the United States from the Middle East. Iran is likely using this proposed regional security mechanism to encourage Gulf …

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