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Excerpt from Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
When Spies was first published in 2023, it made front-page news with the chilling revelation that the Russian government had reached an advanced stage in planning an assassination on American soil.
Russia's target was Alexander Poteyev, a former officer in the SVR, Russia's fo...
Having spent most of my life working in “advanced nations” that have strategically accentuated financial and professional services growth while outsourcing manufacturing to the lowest cost jurisdiction, the rapid rise of reindustrialization policies has shocked many by its rapid ascension and acceleration of mission investment.
Reindustrialisation is core to the soverei...
In the years following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, much of the world treated the region as strategically peripheral - unstable, exhausted, and largely disconnected from the future of global security. Policymakers assumed the consequences of state collapse and civil war would remain regionally contained.
They did not.
The vacuum that emerged across Afgh...
For the first time in years, large swaths of Yemeni territory are changing hands. The Houthis’ recent losses in the east of the country were quickly followed by a string of victories along the Red Sea coast that brought the group closer to the Bab al-Mandeb strait. Early readings that the eastern losses marked the beginning of the regime’s collapse have since proved premature...
Washington has accomplished an important feat by stealthily moving oil through the Persian Gulf despite Iran’s proclaimed closure. But the means it has relied on can’t become normal maritime behavior.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on August 27 that the United States had