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Resilience under fire: how US’s WWII airfield upgrades back Taiwan

(Rowan Allport - ASPI The Strategist) In World War II, the United States built a western Pacific airfield here, another there, and more elsewhere,...

Russia, Navalny and the Uses of Poison in State-Sponsored Assassinations

(Brett Edwards and Luca Trenta - RUSI) ‘We have been pursuing the truth on this since Alexei died in prison.’ In February 2026, almost...

Iran Update, February 25, 2026

(Institute for the Study of War) Planning for a Post-Iranian Regime Reality: A newly established coalition of anti-regime Kurdish organizations outlined its vision for administering...

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 25, 2026

(Institute for the Study of War) ISW has not observed evidence of Ukrainian forces operating within Pokrovsk since late January 2025, indicating that Russian forces...

­Korean Peninsula Update, February 25, 2026

(Institute for the Study of War) North Korean politics: The WPK opened the 9th Party Congress with a focus on economic development and external security....

As US tech giants become cable giants, it’s time we pay attention to our seabeds

(Elisabeth Braw - Politico) Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a thoughtful and stirring speech at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, speaking...

What happened after Elon Musk took the Russian army offline

(Ibrahim Naber - Politico) “All we’ve got left now,” the Russian soldier said, “are radios, cables and pigeons.”. A decision earlier this month by...

UK exclusion from EU defense loan ‘self-defeating’

(Esther Webber - Politico) British Defence Minister Al Carns described the failure to agree U.K. entry into the EU's SAFE program as "self-defeating" for...

France warns against risk of nuclear proliferation

(Laura Kayali - Politico) There is a risk of nuclear proliferation in the world today, according to a French official from the Elysée Palace....

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