Maritime security in a contested Indian Ocean
Image: From Chokepoint Disruption to Integrated Maritime Intelligence and National Resilience There has been a significant shift in the maritime threat environment. The problem is[…]
Hormuz under fire: three tankers, three days — and the emergence of a new maritime security reality
Image: Hazim Al-Mulla, VesselFinder A strategic assessment of the tanker attacks of 16–18 September 2026 The latest incidents involving commercial tankers in and around the[…]
Chaos ab ordo: Is it time to relocate Arab prosperity to the West?
Image: Mohsen Saafi Renewed fighting around the Persian Gulf and the Bab el-Mandeb, and the reactivation of Saudi air operations against Ansar Allah, have again[…]
From the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean: How Dangote is Redrawing Africa’s Energy Map
Image: Daba Markets Inc. The Dangote Group is bridging Africa’s eastern and western coasts, leveraging mega-refining capacity to shield emerging markets from volatile global shipping[…]
Saudi Arabia Re-Enters Yemen Conflict as Ansar Allah Advance
Image: AFP via Getty Saudi Arabia has intensified air operations as the Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, expand along Yemen’s Red Sea coast and[…]
PGSA Expands Non-Compliance Register to 77 Vessels: A Growing Maritime Security Challenge Across the Strait of Hormuz and the Indian Ocean
Image: Tasnim News Agency/AP The maritime-security environment around the Strait of Hormuz has entered another potentially consequential phase following the latest update by Iran’s Persian[…]
Ansarallah Gains Strengthen Houthi Position Around Bab al-Mandeb
The military balance around the strategically important Bab al-Mandeb Strait appears to be shifting following a rapid Ansarallah offensive along Yemen’s western coast. Over two[…]
THE TANKER WAR: WHEN COMMERCIAL SHIPPING BECOMES A BATTLEFIELD
Photo: US Central Command The destruction of Iranian oil tankers by the United States represents far more than an escalation between Washington and Tehran. It[…]
The Unified Architecture of Global Crime
Photo: Bolivarian National Armed Forces of Venezuela, 2025Transnational organized crime does not operate in isolated, single-commodity silos. From the remote Makran Coast of Pakistan and[…]
Saving Tunisia is Saving Europe: For a New Pact of Shared Survival in the Mediterranean
Photo: Francisco Seco/Pool via Reuters Five years after President Kais Saïed dismantled Tunisia’s parliamentary system and concentrated executive power, the country is no longer merely[…]