Conflicts & Crises
Current and recent conflicts, escalation risks, and battlefield updates.
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A New Myanmar Is Emerging: How a Stalemated Civil War Became a Victory for Beijing
After five years of war, Myanmar's rebellion is fracturing, the Tatmadaw is regaining ground, and the only real winner sits across the border in China.
Pakistan Besieged: How the Balochistan Insurgency and Afghan War Are Converging at Once
Pakistan faces a hardened Baloch insurgency, an undeclared war with Afghanistan, the TTP, and IMF dependency—all at the same time, with no clean exit.
Has Israel Bitten Off More Than It Can Chew? The Strain of a Seven-Front War
Israel's near-continuous war across seven fronts is exposing manpower shortages, interceptor depletion, and a coalition collapse over the draft and settler violence.
Iran's Sleeper Cells Weren't Real. The Alternative Is Worse.
Iran's threatened sleeper cells never materialized during the Iran War. What emerged instead was a gig-economy sabotage campaign that's harder to stop.
Will the RSF Defections End the War in Sudan?
As founding RSF commanders defect to Sudan's army with men, weapons, and intelligence, the SAF gains its best chance to break the stalemate — at a steep moral cost.
Cuba at Zero Day: How a Fuel Collapse Became Washington's Next Regime-Change Gamble
Cuba has run out of fuel as the US tightens a post-Maduro squeeze, indicts Raúl Castro, and courts his grandson for a negotiated transition.
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Sweden's Hidden Gang Crisis: How Did It Happen?
How Sweden went from one of Europe’s safest countries to record levels of gang shootings and bombings — and what drove the change.
Operation Unthinkable: Churchill's Secret Plan to Attack Stalin
How Churchill ordered a top-secret plan to attack the Soviet Union in 1945, the military calculus behind it, and why it was ultimately shelved.
Why the World Is Ignoring Sudan's Devastating Civil War
Discover the geopolitical factors, media fatigue, and tactical information blackouts causing the world to ignore Sudan's devastating civil war.
Soviet Invasion of Manchuria: End of Imperial Japan
On August 9, 1945, as the atomic bomb obliterated Nagasaki, another cataclysmic event unfolded far to the north. The Soviet Union, having secretly amassed
Iran's Attack on Israel: Is the Middle East About to Go to War?
An analysis of Iran's April 2024 drone and missile barrage against Israel, its causes, its failure, and whether the region now stands on the brink of war.
Kosovo-Serbia Tensions: Should We Be Worried?
In the heart of the Balkans, a powder keg simmers. The September 2023 ambush in Banjska, where armed Serbs killed a Kosovar policeman, has sent shockwaves