A war meant to bend Tehran now traps Washington The Iranian crisis now carries all the familiar features of recent Western wars: overwhelming technological superiority, deep-strike capabilities, enormous military spending and, at the same time, uncertain political results, sometimes opposite to the stated goals. The United States has…
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The war in Ukraine as a symptom of a global crisis The long exchange between John Mearsheimer and Sergey Karaganov is not merely a discussion about the war in Ukraine. It is, in reality, a confrontation between two schools of strategic thought which, despite starting from different assumptions,…
Survival as Strategy The real issue is not Donald Trump’s declaration of victory. The real issue is that behind that declaration one can already see a strategic vacuum. Washington can strike, destroy and wear down its adversary. But it still cannot convert military superiority into a definitive political…
The most important military fact is not that Iran struck Diego Garcia. It did not. The decisive fact is another: it showed that it can reach it, or at least place it within its operational horizon. Two ballistic missiles were launched toward the Anglo-American base in the Indian…