US Must ‘Super Escalate’ to End the Standoff in the Red Sea 

Ayatollah Khamenei

The Houthis, one of multiple Iranian proxy groups operating in the Middle East, have been wreaking havoc on merchant vessels in the Red Sea for more than two months. Given that nearly 25% of the world’s maritime-traded goods must pass through these waters to get to market, the impact of the attacks on the international …

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Numeric Cheetah Flips-When Military Analysts Dance to Political Tunes

Lloyd Austin

Deployed as a math geek research analyst in the company of a certain prominent political figure today, I soon learned a bitter truth: numbers don’t lie, but military analysts? Well, they often have to.