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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Russian Military Failures: Aerial, Logistics, and Comms
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Assassinating Hitler: Nazi Germany's Last Chance at Salvation
From lone poisoners to the July 20 bomb plot, the full history of at least 42 assassination attempts against Adolf Hitler and why each one failed.
General Winter: Does Cold Weather Really Always Favor Russia?
From Napoleon's 1812 retreat to the Winter War with Finland, examining whether Russia's brutal winters truly guarantee battlefield victory.
The Great Siege of Malta: Knights Hospitaller vs the Ottoman Empire
How 600 Knights Hospitaller and Maltese militia held off 40,000 Ottoman troops in 1565, killing Dragut and saving Europe from invasion.
How Ukraine Lost and Retook Snake Island
The five-month battle for a 0.2 km² rock in the Black Sea cost Russia close to $1 billion, the cruiser Moskva, and control of the northwest Black Sea.
Sinking the Tirpitz: The Hunt for the Beast of the Kriegsmarine
How the Allies spent nearly five years and 35 operations trying to sink the battleship Tirpitz, the largest warship ever built by a European navy.