Emzari Gelashvili
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Iran
Iran Doesn't Need to Leave the Treaty. It Has Already Left the Inspectors.
Two Iranian messages went out in the same week of September. On September 20, a group of lawmakers in Tehran submitted a bill under the parliament’s...

Information Warfare
Preventing Foreign Cultivation
Nobody Had the Authority to Tell Him Who He Had Invited The United States has no mechanism to protect a president's family from foreign cultivation....

Iran
The Video Got the Headlines. The Bank Got Cut Off.
What the second month of the economic campaign against Iran actually did — and what Moscow does when it has no paperwork left On August 30, the...

Iran
The Paperwork Got There First
How sanctions, insurance and contracts can shape the Strait of Hormuz before sovereignty does On August 14, at a police training center in Garden...

Russia
Teaching the Most Pro-American Nation to Hate America
There is a street in Tbilisi named after George W. Bush.

Information Warfare
The Long Classroom
How Soviet and Chinese Intelligence Subverted Western Education — and What the Results Look Like Executive Summary Between 1996 and the present, the...

Russo-Ukraine War
The War Came Home to the Urals
Four years after launching a war to prevent threats from reaching Russia's interior, the Kremlin is watching drones strike beyond the Urals. In...

Russia
The Ivanishvili File
Washington’s Clock Is Ticking — 180 Days to the Truth For more than a decade, one question has haunted Georgian politics: who really runs the country?...

Russo-Ukraine War
Russia Day 2026: The Hollow Sovereignty
The Illusion on the Cobblestones June 12 is Russia Day — the anniversary of Moscow’s 1990 Declaration of State Sovereignty. Across the country today,...

China
Cold War 2.0: How China Smartly Replaced the Soviet Union
Slide 1: Retreat, Hide, or Take Control? — The world order as a high-stakes game.

In Pursuit of Nuclear Abolition
By Peter Huessy • RealClearDefense
Innovation Alone Won’t Prepare the U.S. for the Future Battlefield
By Joshua Segal • RealClearDefense
The sUAS Tactical Trifecta
By Bryan T. Woody • RealClearDefense
The Revolutionary War: When Strategic Options Share the Same Weakness
By Henry Yep • RealClearDefense
The Houthis Are Testing the Limits of Collective Defense
By Saima Afzal • RealClearDefense

Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki • RealClearDefense
Northrop Grumman Breaks Out the Big Guns at AUSA
By Daniel Terrill, Defense News
Army Pursuing Diverse Array of New Anti-Air Interceptors
By Trevithick, The WarZone
Who Shoots Down the Drone Over the Shipyard?
By John Ferrari & Dillon Prochnicki, RCD
F-35C Lands for the First Time on a Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier
By The Aviationist
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