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‘No Such Thing As A Regional Conflict Anymore,’ STRATCOM Chief Says

Commanders should expect any conflict in the information age to expand far beyond the geography where missiles are flying or troops are warring, and in that environment, controlling information may become as consequential as controlling physical terrain, US Strategic Command’s top officer said Tuesday
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Trump Igniting Nuclear Arms Race In The Middle East

For more than two decades, the policy of the United States toward the Middle East, regardless of the party holding power in Washington, rested on the proposition that certain nuclear technologies are too dangerous to spread in an undemocratic region where regimes are overthrown and strategic realities change overnight
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Does The Iran War Diminish US Superpower Status?

"Ships of the World, start your engines," US President Donald Trump said while announcing a deal with Iran to end the conflict he launched along with Israel more than three months ago
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Trump-Xi Summit: Managed Rivalry, Unresolved Contest

The concluded Trump-Xi summit is fundamentally different from the last meet taking place in China during President Trump’s first term, or even during the most recent face-to-face encounter last October in Busan
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The US Will Suffer More From Oil Shock Than China, Russia, Or EU

President Trump and members of his administration have repeatedly claimed that the United States’ prodigious oil production insulates the country from price shocks stemming from Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz
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US Air Power’s Feet Of Clay

Despite the apparent success of the US Air Force during six weeks of intense operations over Iran which saw much of Iran’s high-end integrated air defense network suppressed or destroyed, the broader implications of the still-ongoing US-Iran War point toward emerging structural weaknesses in American airpower
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Iran War Brings Massive Price And Profit Gouging

As workers around the world are hit with the ever-worsening consequences of the US war on Iran—crippling rises in petrol and gas prices, food price hikes and the growing threat of food shortages in poorer countries—major corporations and banks are raking in increased profits to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars
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China Cranks South China Sea Buildup While Iran Consumes US

China’s renewed land reclamation at Antelope Reef comes as the ongoing US-Israel-Iran War draws significant US military assets into the Middle East, raising questions over whether shifting US force posture is opening strategic space in the South China Sea
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US Delays Japan’s Tomahawk Missile Supplies As Iran Strikes Take Priority

Japan’s order for hundreds of Tomahawk missiles from the US is under threat as the American-Israeli war with Iran burns through inventories, the latest example of how the conflict is drawing in supplies and troops at the expense of defending against Washington’s primary strategic rival, China
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If Iranian Regime Collapses Or Is Toppled, 'What's Next?'

In a startling turn of events in the Israel-Iran war, six hours after Iran attacked the Al Udeid Air Base— the largest U.S. combat airfield outside of the U.S., and home of the CENTCOM Forward Headquarters
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