The combination of Turkish industry, Saudi wealth, and Pakistani military know-how could create a formidable new defense industrial base.
On August 6, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey signed a historic defense pact—the Mecca Joint Defense...
The US dished out its latest National Security Strategy in November 2025, in which it was clearly stipulated that the US would not allow any adversarial power to exercise control over oil and gas resources of the Middle East and the waterways that pass...
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz underscores the need for US strategists to reframe what it means to exercise sea power.
“The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. Combat ineffective. Decimated. Destroyed. Defeated…It is no...
The Saudi Arabia-Türkiye-Pakistan defence pact is a watershed in regional security because it brings together three major Muslim states with complementary strengths and places collective defence at the centre of their relationship. Saudi Arabia brings...
Back in June, at the closing press conference for the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, Donald Trump explained why he had called a halt to hostilities with Iran. Continued bombing would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and as long as the war went on,...