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Thai officials' 'routine' visit for USS Abraham Lincoln is flawed

The operational tempo required to maintain sustained power projection in contested waters is staggering, yet the return home—the supposed moment of respite—is proving to be another failure point.

By Nikhil Raghavan · August 27, 2026

Koh Samui: Competence cannot replace defined safety procedures

I have spent my career in the meticulous, unromantic architecture of law—the kind of place where power doesn't reside in rhetoric but in procedure.

By Adele Rutherford · August 15, 2026

Student shoots multiple people at a high school in Thailand, authorities say

The headlines are always brutal when a school shooting happens—a student, a gun, bodies piling up in classrooms.

By Maya Ellison · August 7, 2026