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Siting New Spaceports and Use of Priority Airspace for Critical Space Launch Corridors

How Israel and Ukraine Are Guiding the Next Generation of Air Defense

The proliferation of air defense threats is prompting a rethink of conventional, expensive, and hard-to-restock air defense systems.

Georgia shows what could follow Serbia’s election

On Oct. 25, Aleksandar Vucic’s ruling coalition will face Serbia’s student protest movement and established opposition parties at the ballot box. Vucic, who resigned as president in September to seek...

A Buyout for Iran’s ‘Shadow Fleet’

The U.S. can exploit sanctions to suppress the black market.

Riyadh has an obvious problem, but no obvious solution

Riyadh has lived with the Houthi danger lurking at its southern border without good options to remove it.

The Russian Milblogger Arrested in Montenegro Is a Kremlin Stalking Horse

For years, Russia has treated the Balkans as a battleground for its geopolitical ambitions, exploiting ethnic divisions, fueling tensions, and challenging Western influence. Now, Montenegro is pushing...

Profile: Hezbollah’s new liaison to the Lebanese state and society

Hussain al Abdallah, who succeeded Wafiq Safa as head of Hezbollah’s Liaison and Coordination Unit in February, reportedly sought the return of explosives seized this month by Lebanese security forces....

The Next War of Attrition is in Yemen

Battlefield dynamics in Yemen shift quickly, but Houthi aims do not. A movement organized around radical ideology and perpetual conflict now shares a border with a state organized around modernization...

Is Russia playing deadly games with the plague? Look to its history.

Excerpt One of the greatest scourges the world has ever known is in recent headlines: the Plague. A technician at Russia’s Irkutsk Research Anti-Plague Institute has died of “pneumonia of unknown...

Russia’s Leading Sanctions Evasion Tool Is a New Kind of Illicit Finance Threat

In a blow to Russia’s economy and war effort, on October 8, the United Kingdom sanctioned 38 entities that are helping to prop up the Kremlin. That includes two oil companies, 12 ships trafficking...

Securing the United States Bulk-Power System

Time for Europe To Stop Funding Islamist Networks

Europe’s Parliament wants to close the public purse to Muslim Brotherhood networks. Its recent vote challenges a funding system that risks subsidizing organizations whose political agenda undermines...

Yemen’s Internationally Recognized Government Launches a Serious Challenge to the Houthis

The Iran-backed Houthis march down Yemen’s west coast looked easy, but holding the territory is proving more difficult. Yemen’s internationally recognized government began Operation “Dawn of Yemen”—...

Who still fights the war on terror?

A plumber, a dentist, a farmer, and a wounded pilot

Britain’s Greens and the Jews: Belonging on Condition

On October 4, at their Brighton conference, members of the Green Party of England and Wales adopted a motion equating Zionism with racism and refused to protect members affiliated with a synagogue. This development raises questions for the entire European Green political family, including France’s Les Écologistes.

Treasury Launches Assault on Russian Shadow Banking Infrastructure Supporting Iran

Operation Economic Outcast has found a new target: the A7 Network. On October 1, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the Russia-linked shadow-banking platform as a transnational...

Russian Cyberespionage Campaign Signals U.S. Should Fast-Track Lessons Learned From Ukraine

Russia is testing its cyber weapons in Ukraine before turning them against the United States and its allies. Microsoft has disclosed that the Russian intelligence-linked hacking group Star Blizzard...

Trump Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: October

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Hezbollah’s Shadow Economy in Post-Assad Syria

UN Human Rights Council, European Governments Launch Economic Warfare Against Israel

International opprobrium towards the presence of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank, is discernibly shifting from rhetorical condemnation to economic and legal warfare. Three...