Key Takeaways: Houthi attacks and growing instability in the Horn of Africa—particularly the merging of Sudan’s civil war with Ethiopia-Eritrea tensions and Somalia’s internal disputes—are creating new threats to Red Sea navigation and energy flows through Bab el-Mandeb.Competing Middle Eastern powers (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Turkey, and Israel) are fueling …

Le mieux que Trump puisse faire, c’est d’empêcher que ces conflits ne se terminent en guerre mondiale. Le silence qui entoure l’issue de la rencontre avec Netanyahou la semaine dernière dans le Bureau ovale en dit long. Pas un seul représentant du gouvernement américain n’est venu l’accueillir à l’aéroport, et …

For anyone still selling the West’s grand strategy as a coherent product, is that the framework itself has aged worse than either of its authors could have imagined. Mackinder and Spykman were writing about a world where land power and sea power were mutually exclusive career choices. There is a …