President Donald Trump announced last week that he had secured a historic trade agreement with India. The terms, as he described them, were unambiguous: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had committed to cease purchases of Russian oil, and in exchange the United States would reduce tariffs on Indian goods from twenty-five percent to eighteen percent. India would redirect its demand toward American and Venezuelan barrels. Trump cast this as a strategic blow to Vladimir Putin’s war machine, a tariff...

President Donald Trump announced last week that he had secured a historic trade agreement with India. The terms, as he described them, were unambiguous: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had committed to cease purchases of Russian oil, and in exchange the United States would reduce tariffs on Indian goods from twenty-five percent to eighteen percent. India would redirect its demand toward American and Venezuelan barrels. Trump cast this as a strategic blow to Vladimir Putin’s war machine, a tariff...

Western strategic analysts obsess over naval mines when discussing Iran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz. It’s an oddly twentieth-century fixation, conjuring images of covert nighttime deployments and painstaking minesweeping operations that feel lifted from Cold War contingency planning. Yet this analytical tunnel vision misses something far more dangerous: Iran has spent decades building a comprehensive coastal missile defense network along the entire Persian Gulf coastline, effectiv...

Western strategic analysts obsess over naval mines when discussing Iran’s ability to close the Strait of Hormuz. It’s an oddly twentieth-century fixation, conjuring images of covert nighttime deployments and painstaking minesweeping operations that feel lifted from Cold War contingency planning. Yet this analytical tunnel vision misses something far more dangerous: Iran has spent decades building a comprehensive coastal missile defense network along the entire Persian Gulf coastline, effectiv...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte pulled off what many thought impossible this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos. After a private meeting with President Donald Trump, he convinced the American leader to back down from his aggressive push to acquire Greenland, replacing threats of military action and tariffs with what both men are calling a "framework of a future deal." Trump abandoned plans to impose 10 percent tariffs on eight European nations and ruled out using force to take the Da...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte pulled off what many thought impossible this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos. After a private meeting with President Donald Trump, he convinced the American leader to back down from his aggressive push to acquire Greenland, replacing threats of military action and tariffs with what both men are calling a "framework of a future deal." Trump abandoned plans to impose 10 percent tariffs on eight European nations and ruled out using force to take the Da...