In the early hours of Saturday October 26, Israel has launched its ‘official’ retaliatory ‘precision strikes’ on the Iranian capital. The explosions heard across different…
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Civil war, teetering economy, sporadic fuel and food crises, and a slowly imploding society, have overshadowed the lives of Syrians for more than a decade.…
As the international community holds its breath in anticipation of the imminent Israeli retaliation to Iran’s missile attack on the Nevatim air base, and continues…
In January last year, I wrote a piece on how the great powers were sleepwalking back to 1914. What has changed since, is that one…
CHAIRMAN KHRUSHCHEV TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY OCTOBER 28, 1962 “Dear Mr. President: I have received your message of 27 October. I express my satisfaction and thank…
For the past two years, or so, I thought the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, was another Mikheil Saakashvili, a mere copycat; for the two made…
During the horrid thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, had President Kennedy not been made privy to proper and punctual intelligence,…
An Excerpt From My Magisterial Thesis: “U.S.-Russian Exceptionalism: Intelligence, MAD, and Détente”
Conceptualization: the Quasi-inherent ‘Supra-international Balance of Power’ of MAD Post-Mutually-Assured-Destruction (MAD), it was no longer a question of tactic or strategy that molded the…
The colossal underwater project, known as Nord Stream 2, is more than a gas pipeline. It is a symbolic solidification of the eternal and inalterable…
What I find most disconcerting at present, almost seven months into the war in Ukraine, is the popular oblivion to the actual peril and the…