Securing Undersea Networks Before Strategic Stability Quietly Fractures Forever
The most consequential strategic contest unfolding across the world’s oceans is not taking place between aircraft carriers, submarines or missile fleets. It is unfolding thousands of metres beneath the sea, where slender fibre optic cables, power links, sensors and seabed infrastructure quietly sustain
Securing Undersea Networks Before Strategic Stability Quietly Fractures Forever
The most consequential strategic contest unfolding across the world’s oceans is not taking place between aircraft carriers, submarines or missile fleets. It is unfolding thousands of metres beneath the sea, where slender fibre optic cables, power links, sensors and seabed infrastructure quietly sustain
Nuclear Deterrence Faces Instability in an Accelerating Fragmented Global Security Order
The architecture of nuclear deterrence was designed for a world that moved more slowly than the one that now exists. Its logic rested on time, clarity and a shared understanding of thresholds. Decisions could be weighed, signals interpreted and crises managed within a
Hybrid Intelligence Operations, Proxy Dynamics, and the Risk to Nuclear-Armed States
Across the cities and towns of Iran, from Tehran’s historic Grand Bazaar to the industrial belts of Isfahan and Mashhad, the economic crisis that has deepened since late 2025 has now erupted into the most significant wave of unrest the nation has seen