Nuclear, missile, blockade and direct-force escalation paths.
6 questions
Egyptian weaponization would not change battlefield math overnight — but it would dismantle the four-decade architecture that has kept the Eastern…
Middle East
Hezbollah cannot win, but it can make Israel pay a strategic price the country has not paid since 1973 — and force the United States to choose between…
Middle East
A strike likely delays — not destroys — the Iranian program, while permanently rewriting regional deterrence. The cost is paid in oil prices and shipping…
Middle East
North Korea's value is its unpredictability. Every crisis raises the price of the next one, and the regional nuclear-latency debate now runs faster than…
Asia-Pacific
The Balkans do not need a great-power war to destabilize Europe's southern flank. A weekend of barricades, one dead KFOR soldier, and a Serbian armored…
Europe
A blockade pressures Taipei faster than allied navies can respond. The clock — not the missile — is the weapon. Time-to-resupply defines the outcome.
Asia-Pacific