Editor in chief

Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
The Caspian Front: Ukraine’s Expanding War Against Russian and Iranian Logistics
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 28 July 2026 Wars have a tendency to expand beyond the geographical boundaries that […]
Would the Later Wittgenstein Have Considered Large Language Models to Be Conscious?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 28 July 2026 Few philosophical questions have emerged so suddenly into public consciousness as […]
The Sound of a Voice: Signals Intelligence and the Hidden Value of Presence
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 28 July 2026 Modern warfare has transformed information into a weapon as potent as […]
Putin’s political survival and the limits of battlefield logic
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 28 July 2026 Wars are often described in terms of territorial gains and losses, […]
Laura Loomer in Kyiv: When Experience Collides with Ideology
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 27 July 2026 Politics rewards conviction. Reality, however, has a persistent habit of challenging […]
The War Comes to the Checkout: How the Attacks on Wildberries Threaten Russia’s Consumer Economy
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Monday 27 July 2026 For much of the war, Ukraine’s long-range strikes inside Russia concentrated […]
Infiltrator tries to turn on Starlink for Russia
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 26 July 2026 Wars have always depended upon communications. From mounted couriers and semaphore […]
Russia’s Economy Encounters the Limits of War
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Sunday 26 July 2026 The latest forecasts from the Central Bank of Russia mark an […]
Justice Under Pressure: The Dismissal of Karim Khan and the Politics of International Criminal Law
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 25 July 2026 The dismissal of Karim Khan as Prosecutor of the International Criminal […]
Europe’s forthcoming ban on Russian gas tankers
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 25 July 2026 Before armies advance, financiers calculate and insurers hesitate. Before governments issue […]



