Toplines Russian President Vladimir Putin used a staged meeting with several Russian commanders on July 3 to make greatly exaggerated claims of Russian advances that do not match battlefield realities in order to construct a narrative of continuous Russian military successes. Putin met with the Russian Chief of the General …

Les temps sont durs pour tous ceux qui ont toujours critiqué l’OTAN. De l’époque de la “défense du monde libre” contre le communisme, en passant par celle des “interventions humanitaires” et de la “guerre mondiale contre le terrorisme”, jusqu’à la lutte prétendument existentielle d’aujourd’hui contre la quasi-totalité du monde non …

Washington and Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding that has not stopped the exchange of fire in the Gulf but has already produced a renewed and more aggressive repression campaign inside Iran. This crackdown can be understood as the regime’s response to Iranians who had begun to imagine what their …

The consensus among analysts is that Hamas is down, but hardly out. The group may be badly battered, but it has been around since 1987, and in that time, it has been repeatedly attacked by Israel and has always grown back. The conditions that gave rise to the organization—occupation, dispossession, …

Les dés sont jetés. Il ne semble pas y avoir d’autre choix. On sent désormais clairement que la Russie a considérablement renforcé sa puissance de feu militaire pour éliminer le régime de Kiev soutenu par l’OTAN. Il ne s’agit d’ailleurs pas que d’éliminer le cloaque néonazi de Kiev, mais bien …

Le point de départ de mon intervention est une question en apparence simple : pourquoi rapprocher deux anniversaires aussi éloignés que les 250 ans de la Déclaration d’Indépendance des États-Unis d’Amérique et les 50 ans de la Charte d’Alger ? La réponse, à mon avis, ne peut pas être seulement …

Israel’s recent regional strategy has exposed significant limitations in achieving its long-term foreign policy objectives, illustrating the widening gap between military operations and strategic success. While Iran’s resilience and diplomatic positioning have accelerated the emergence of a more multipolar and diplomatically driven Middle Eastern security order. Carl von Clausewitz once …

The US continues to playact diplomacy with Iran regarding the latest “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) signed, then immediately violated by the US, renegotiated, and supposedly agreed upon again — using the pause in all-out war to carefully shape the battlefield ahead of what will inevitably be another round of large-scale …

Key Takeaways Iranian officials are simultaneously employing diplomatic outreach and military coercion to pressure regional states to support a new “regional security mechanism,” likely to advance Iran’s long-standing objective of expelling the United States from the Middle East. Iran is likely using this proposed regional security mechanism to encourage Gulf …

Officially formed in August 2024 by Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov, the “Rubicon” Center was created to centralize and scale Russia’s previously fractured unmanned technology initiatives (aerial, ground, and naval) under a unified umbrella responsible for research, procurement, training, and operational deployment. To prevent logistical bottlenecks and operate more independently …