Attacks on Amazon’s cloud facilities in the Gulf underscore how data centers have moved from digital infrastructure to contested strategic assets. An Amazon Web Services facility in Northern Virginia, ...

China’s ties with Iran are based on utility – and if the costs rise too high, Beijing could set Tehran aside. China’s Ambassador to the United Nations Fu Cong abstains during a Security Council vote ...

Only sustained, coordinated regional pressure can bring down the Iranian regime and end the turbulence it foments across the Middle East. New oil and gas pipelines designed to bypass the Strait of ...

Prediction markets increasingly outperform traditional forecasting by monetizing collective intelligence amid declining institutional trust. March 20, 2026: New York-based and Panama domiciled ...

Mineral-producing nations are turning the shortcomings of the G7 and BRICS into bargaining power. Bundles of copper on rail wagons at the New Kapiri Mposhi train station in Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia. The ...

United States President Donald Trump’s May 2026 visit to Beijing was neither a diplomatic triumph nor a clean end to the trade war his first administration launched nearly a decade ago. Instead, it ...

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This report is the second in a GIS series on spacepower. The first can be found here and part three can be found here. China’s ambitions in space are not isolated technological projects, but ...

U.S. impatience with NATO burden-sharing and its pivot to the Indo-Pacific is driving NATO 3.0. June 10, 2026, Pabrade, Lithuania: German soldiers prepare for Freedom Shield 2026, the inaugural ...

This is the third installment in a GIS series on spacepower. Read about great power competition and China’s orbital ambitions. Grand strategy works by keeping a state’s political purpose aligned with ...

Mali’s escalating crisis reveals how state failure, insurgency and resource competition increasingly intertwine. On May 21, 2026, the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., hosted a panel entitled “A ...

Russia could well test NATO by attacking Lithuania, but Vilnius is better prepared than most. A Lithuanian state border guard stands on patrol near Belarus on June 21, 2021 near Poskonys, Lithuania.