Why Salaried Armies Keep Losing to Mobilizational Islam When Houthi forces entered Mokha on September 10, they took more than a port on Yemen’s Red Sea coast. They broke through a military zone that Gulf governments had spent years and billions of dollars trying…
The fighting in Yemen since September 3, 2026, runs along a sectarian line. The Houthis, Zaydi Shias backed by Iran, opened an assault west of Taiz and south of Hodeidah after the 2022 ceasefire collapsed in July, and they face the internationally recognized government…
What was actually signed on July 22 “We are changing the Middle East and becoming a regional power,” Netanyahu said in March 2026, at his first press conference after the war with Iran began. He repeated the formula all year, and it had a…
In the Knesset today, opposition leader Yair Lapid declared: “Russia and Iran are running influence operations against the Israeli public in the run-up to the election.” The theme of a future stolen election is being introduced not by a fringe voice but by the…
Ben-Gurion’s peripheral doctrine — leaning on the non-Arab periphery (Iran, Turkey, Ethiopia) against the Arab environment — has stopped functioning as a strategic frame for Israeli security. Two of its load-bearing states, Iran and Turkey, have become the cores of two axes of resistance…
Trump is dismantling the Iranian axis — and with the same motion strengthening the Turkish one, which openly names Israel a threat On June 24, the Trump administration notified Congress of its intent to sell Turkey a batch of General Electric F110 aircraft engines…
Most Israelis see Turkey as a source of threats and risks to the country’s security — above all in the context of East Jerusalem, Gaza, and a regional settlement. But anxiety does not translate into appetite for a hard line: responses are dominated by…
Expert survey conducted in May 2026. Eleven experts — from the secular left to the religious right — agreed on more than they disagreed on. That convergence across the ideological spectrum is the central finding: this is a structural picture, not a partisan reading….
AI, digital currency, and the blind spot in The Limits to Growth Igor Kaminnyk https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0981-965X The Limits to Growth (1972) is usually remembered as an environmental forecast. This essay looks at it from another angle — at how its model was built. The World3…
Why Turkey’s nuclear program will not end with Iran’s defeat — and why Israel has yet to grasp it Five days after the active phase of the war with Iran ended, on April 14, 2026, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated that Israeli strikes…