President Donald Trump renamed the Department of Defense (DOD) to the Department of War in September 2025. Then, just a month later, he threatened at least three countries with war. Trump’s economic war was waged on most states, in the form of tariffs, from the day he assumed office, but the threats and signalling toward an armed confrontation have been growing more frequent and explicit.
Iran’s missile arsenal is the newly identified threat to Israel and US forces in the region. In the days leading up to 29 December’s meeting between Netanyahu and President Trump, there was considerable speculation that Iran would be the primary item on the meeting’s agenda, and this ultimately proved to be the case. According to the reports, Prime Minister Netanyahu briefed President Trump about the necessity and urgency of attacking Iran again. However, this time the primary threat is not its nuclear programme, but rather Iran’s growing ballistic missile stockpiles.
The concept of deterrence is being tested in these times. Among other factors, the intricacies of alliance politics add nuance and complexity to deterrence paradigms, particularly extended deterrence
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n an age where societies seem trapped in a perpetual cycle of progress and resistance, Fareed Zakaria’s Age of Revolutions: Progress and
The 12-day Israel-Iran conflict was believed by many to be the beginning of World War III. Israel’s killing of the top military
The Indian narrative post-Pahalgam was a variant of an old template—a terror attack followed by India’s unsubstantiated
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