By reopening King Khalid International Airport under active Houthi fire, Saudi Arabia attempts to project stability while revealing a strategic vulnerability it cannot hide.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Yemeni forces driving armored cars over surrendered rebels near a vital Red Sea chokepoint reveal the brutal logic of a proxy war where allies fight for leverage.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Saudi-backed Yemeni forces expelled Iran-backed Houthis from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, proving that regional chokepoints are won on capabilities and lost on illusions.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The capture of Perim Island is not a tactical skirmish; it is a systemic failure of deterrence.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The map of the Red Sea has been rewritten, and the United States and Israel are reading the old version.
By Adele Rutherford ·
There is a quiet, terrifying math to what is happening in the Red Sea, and it is a math that ends with the erosion of the stability we have spent decades, and trillions of dollars, trying to build.
By Caroline Ashford ·
When the national average for diesel clears six dollars a gallon, it stops being a "geopolitical development" and starts being a tax on every working person in this country.
By Ray Dombrowski ·