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Iran

October 9, 2026

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...

Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense
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Information Warfare

September 28, 2026

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....

Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense

Iran

September 15, 2026

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...

Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense
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Iran

September 2, 2026

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...

Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense

Russia

August 15, 2026

Teaching the Most Pro-American Nation to Hate America

There is a street in Tbilisi named after George W. Bush.

Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense

Information Warfare

July 11, 2026

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...

Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense
Russia Ukraine What Next

Russo-Ukraine War

July 4, 2026

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...

Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense

Russia

June 25, 2026

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?...

Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense
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Russo-Ukraine War

June 19, 2026

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,...

Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense
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China

June 6, 2026

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.

Emzari Gelashvili • RealClearDefense

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