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Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
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 […]
What Is It Like to Be a Large Language Model?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Saturday 25 July 2026 In 1974 the philosopher Thomas Nagel posed a deceptively simple question […]
Bringing Europe’s Margins into the Union: Enlargement in an Age of Frozen Conflicts
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Friday 24 July 2026 The European Union has long defined itself as a peace project. […]
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