Ulfur Atli
The myth of nuclear zero: why the demand at the heart...
The May 2026 memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran is one page long and sixty days wide. It commits Iran to...
The ceasefire economy: what actually causes wars to end — and...
By the summer of 1988, Iran was pumping oil through a jury-rigged system of shuttle tankers running from the bombed-out terminals at Kharg Island...
What happens when America leaves: the economics and illusions of European...
In March 2025, the European Commission unveiled Readiness 2030 — hastily rebranded from "ReArm Europe" after Italy and Spain objected to the militaristic name...
The buffer zone doctrine: how temporary military occupations become permanent
On the last day of May 2026, Israeli soldiers raised their flag over Beaufort Castle, a twelfth-century Crusader fortress on a cliff above the...
When the military becomes law enforcement: the legal architecture behind killing...
On the night of September 1, 2025, a US Navy vessel in the Caribbean Sea fired on a small boat. Eleven people died. The...
How satellites changed the economics of war without firing a single...
When US forces began striking Iranian-linked targets under Operation Epic Fury at the end of February 2026, a Hangzhou-based AI company called MizarVision was...
How AI actually works: what the developers know that the headlines...
In March 2023, OpenAI released its technical report for GPT-4. Among the benchmarks: the Uniform Bar Examination, which the model sat under standardized conditions....
The river that four countries fight over — and why the...
The Blue Nile begins in the Ethiopian highlands and delivers more than eighty percent of the water Egypt uses to keep 110 million people...
Why certain ports have more geopolitical power than entire countries
Djibouti is smaller than New Jersey. Its GDP is roughly $4 billion — about what a mid-sized American hospital system brings in annually. Its...
The nuclear plants that nobody talks about — and why they...
On April 15, 2023, Germany switched off its last three nuclear reactors — Isar 2, Emsland, Neckarwestheim 2 — while its gas-fired fleet kept...