In just over a week, intensified Israeli strikes in Lebanon killed seven high-ranking commanders and officials from the powerful Hezbollah militant group, including the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The move left Lebanon and much of the Mideast in shock as Israeli officials celebrated major military and intelligence breakthroughs. Hezbollah had …

Whereas Ukraine never intended to implement the Minsk Accords and was preparing for an invasion this entire time, the dual deceptions of which have ended disastrously for it as is known, Georgian Dream wants Russia to help create a framework for bringing Georgia, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia back together. Russian …

These lessons are: 1) prioritizing military goals over political ones; 2) the importance of superior intelligence; 3) insensitivity to public opinion; 4) the need for one’s “deep state” to be fully convinced of the ongoing conflict’s existential nature; and 5) practicing “radical decisiveness”. The latest Israeli-Lebanese War and the Ukrainian …