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Cross-regional, system-level stories that span multiple theaters, alliances, and strategic domains.
702 Dispatches
Moscow Loses Its Most Valuable Ally: What Orban's Defeat Means for Ukraine
How Viktor Orban's landslide election defeat in Hungary strips the Kremlin of its most useful European ally and reshapes the politics of the Ukraine war.
Pakistan's Forever War with Afghanistan Settles Into a Grinding Stalemate
Two months into Pakistan's air war on the Afghan Taliban, the bombing has produced no concessions, drones keep crossing the border, and Islamabad's recovery is unraveling.
Pakistan and Afghanistan Are Still at War: The Cross-Border Conflict the World Stopped Watching
As the Iran war dominates headlines, Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban have descended into open conflict, with airstrikes on Kabul, daily border skirmishes, and tens of thousands displaced.
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.
Is Pakistan on the Verge of Collapse? Inside the Unstable Nuclear Power
Inside Pakistan's converging crises of economy, politics, and terrorism, and the fear that state collapse could let its nuclear arsenal slip away.
The Pancho Villa Expedition: America's 1916 Invasion of Mexico
How Pancho Villa's 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, triggered the US Punitive Expedition and nearly sparked war between America and Mexico.
Pickett's Charge: Gettysburg's Bloody Turning Point
How a single hour-long assault across a mile of Pennsylvania farmland on July 3, 1863 became one of the worst defeats of the American Civil War.
Poland Wants to Go Nuclear: How a Single Sentence Signaled a New Age of Proliferation
Donald Tusk's nuclear remark to the Sejm, plus rising tension across Taiwan, Syria, and Pakistan's Balochistan, mark a more dangerous global moment.
Putin's Desperation Moves: Symbolic Strikes on Kyiv and the Latvia Gambit
With Ukraine ascendant in drone warfare, a cornered Putin weighs two high-risk gambits—decapitation strikes on Kyiv and a probing attack on NATO's Latvia.
The Rise and Fall of the German War Machine: Doctrine, Speed, and Fatal Blunders
Why Germany's WWII fortunes reversed: superior doctrine and speed won early victories, but a string of strategic blunders raised the hurdles too high.
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.
Who Russia Invades Next: The Case Against Armenia and Georgia
As Putin runs out of options in Ukraine, two vulnerable Caucasus states sit in Russia's sights. We weigh the case for an invasion of Armenia versus Georgia.