Once dependent on imports from Russia, India’s diamond city is now experiencing a surge in suicides. Vaishali Bhen had always had confidence that her husband, Nitin Bhai, would find a way to support their family. For years, he worked in the diamond industry in the west Indian city of Surat, …

Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes has hit its highest annual level since records began. On the morning of Sept. 9, two large demolition machines arrived unannounced at the Abu Aram household in the southern West Bank village of al-Khalidiya. While their appearance that morning was unexpected, everybody knew exactly what …

Since 1948, Israel has made a habit of targeting Palestinian refugee camps, striking the people it’s already displaced. During the thick of summer, around 8 a.m. one day in late July 1971, bulldozers crept into the Gaza Strip’s Jabalia refugee camp. The Israeli military had already warned several families of …

Exclusive: The UK military devised a project to improve Israel’s capacity to confront Iran and Hezbollah, leaked files indicate. Boris Johnson greets Benjamin Netanyahu in Downing Street, 2019. (Photo: Aaron Chown / Alamy) The UK secretly developed a defence plan with Israel, Declassified can reveal. According to leaked documents, the …

Exclusive: The British army’s 77th brigade held secret exchanges with the IDF, leaked files reveal. Britain secretly advised the Israeli military on psychological warfare techniques, Declassified has found. Leaked documents reveal how the British army’s 77th brigade discussed strategy and tactics with the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). The 77th brigade …

In his first public speech as chief of MI6 in 2021, Sir Richard Moore said his intelligence agency was “actively focused on Iran”. This was part of what he described as a “dramatic change in the security landscape” in which there was “a growing threat from state actors”. But alongside …

However, Clausewitz offers a notion of grand strategy not in his theory of war but in his theory of the state. As the affairs of states continue to evolve into a complex web of interdependence, cooperation, and competition, pressure mounts on states to effectively employ the tools of statecraft to …

La visite d’Emmanuel Macron à Belgrade, il y a deux mois, a été présentée par la diplomatie française comme un immense succès dans le cadre du renforcement d’une «Europe plus forte et plus souveraine». Cependant, la question de savoir dans quelle mesure l’Europe de l’Est est réellement indépendante se trouve …

Dans le conflit actuel, l’Occident collectif suit la voie du suicide Jean Luc Schaffhauser, ancien membre de la commission des Affaires étrangères et de la défense et de la sécurité au Parlement européen, a récemment publié une série d’articles sur la nécessité de faire la paix avec la Russie. Il …

La France est un des pays les plus impliqués dans le conflit en Ukraine orchestré par l’OTAN (NdT : Organisation Terroriste de l’Atlantique Nord) ; elle a ses forces spéciales présentes depuis le début du lancement de l’Opération Militaire Spéciale (OMS) russe en 2022. Pour une raison inexpliquée, Paris recherche …