The Syrian state could have collapsed as early as 2015. It held out for another nine years thanks to Russian military ...

Messaging surrounding Russia’s latest failed test launch of its RS-28 “Sarmat” suggests that this ‘peerless’ next-generation ICBM is more propaganda tool than strategic gamechanger.

A small airport has been operating outside of the purview of the Indonesian state since 2019, raising thorny questions about ...

This week we cover missile deployments near Taiwan, a brewing water crisis in Europe along with a far more advanced one in ...

Copper now sits at the center of a fast-tightening web of electrification, digital infrastructure, and geopolitical tension.

Opportunities for ASEAN countries to capture semiconductor back-end, EV battery manufacturing, and higher-value electronics ...

The Islamic Republic has proved, over four and a half decades, that it can survive war, sanctions, isolation, and cycles of ...

Vietnam may be the latest Southeast Asian country forced into a harsh reckoning, but it will not be the last. From Bangkok’s ...

Russia’s mass deployment of incarcerated prisoners to the frontlines of Ukraine makes for good economics if not ethics. But ...

Russia’s 9M730 Burevestnik is being touted as a technological breakthrough, but the technical details don’t add up.