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• Operation Absolute Resolve: Lessons Learned In A New Era of Gray Zone Warfare January 28, 2026
  Executive Summary The geopolitical landscape of the early 21st century has definitively shifted from the linear, state-centric models of the post-Westphalian order to a complex, fluid ecosystem of “Gray Zone” conflict. In this environment, the boundaries between peace and war are not merely blurred; they are deliberately weaponized. This report provides an exhaustive strategic analysis of ...
• DIMDEX 2026: Transforming Qatar’s Defense Industry January 28, 2026
  Executive Summary The 9th edition of the Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (DIMDEX 2026), convened from January 19 to 22 at the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC), represented a definitive inflection point in the Middle Eastern defense market, specifically within the sector of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW). While the exhibition’s nomenclature suggests ...
• Global Conflict Update: January 2026 Analysis January 27, 2026
  Date Authored: January 25, 2026 Executive Summary The international security environment in January 2026 is defined by a convergence of high-intensity state-on-state warfare, the collapse of central authority in critical regional anchors, and a resurgence of aggressive unilateral interventionism that challenges the post-Cold War normative framework. This assessment, synthesized by the joint foreign affairs and intelligence desk, ...
• 2026 National Defense Strategy: Homeland Defense and Global Implications January 27, 2026
  Executive Summary The 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS), released by the Department of War (DoW) on January 23, 2026, marks a definitive pivot in the United States’ military posture, discarding the 2022 framework of “Integrated Deterrence” in favor of a new, assertive doctrine titled “Peace Through Strength.” This report, produced by a multidisciplinary team of national ...
• Operation Absolute Resolve: An Analysis of the “Discombobulator” Event January 26, 2026
  Note: This analysis was conducted with open source intel. The exact weapons used are classified and unknown. This paper presents the likely systems used based on multiple inputs identified in the methodology and sources used. 1. Executive Summary On January 3, 2026, United States special operations forces executed Operation Absolute Resolve, a high-risk extraction ...
• European Union SITREP – Week Ending January 24, 2026 January 24, 2026
  Reporting Period: January 18 – January 24, 2026 1. Executive Summary The reporting period ending January 24, 2026, represents one of the most volatile and strategically consequential weeks for the European Union (EU) in the post-Cold War era. The Union faced a simultaneous, multi-vector stress test of its external security architecture, its internal economic cohesion, and its resilience ...
• Canada SITREP – Week Ending January 24, 2026 January 24, 2026
  Period Covering: January 18, 2026 – January 24, 2026 1. Executive Summary The reporting period ending January 24, 2026, represents a decisive and volatile inflection point in Canadian grand strategy. The administration of Prime Minister Mark Carney has executed a high-stakes geopolitical pivot, formalizing a “New Strategic Partnership” with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) aimed at ...
• Iran SITREP – Week Ending January 24, 2026 January 24, 2026
  DATE: January 17-24, 2026 1. Executive Summary 1.1. Strategic Overview The Islamic Republic of Iran faces a convergence of existential crises unparalleled since the 1979 Revolution. For the reporting period ending January 24, 2026, the regime is engaged in a high-intensity internal security operation to suppress nationwide protests while simultaneously navigating a critical standoff with the International ...
• China SITREP – Week Ending January 24, 2026 January 24, 2026
  PERIOD: JANUARY 17 – JANUARY 24, 2026 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE STRATEGIC BIFURCATION The assessment period ending January 24, 2026, reveals a People’s Republic of China (PRC) operating under a strategy of extreme bifurcation. The leadership in Beijing is attempting to manage two contradictory trajectories simultaneously: a diplomatic “charm offensive” aimed at fracturing the cohesion of the ...
• Russia-Ukraine Conflict SITREP – Week Ending January 24, 2026 January 24, 2026
  DATES: January 17 – 24th, 2026 1. STRATEGIC OVERVIEW The reporting period ending January 24, 2026, marks a pivotal and highly volatile juncture in the nearly four-year Russia-Ukraine conflict. The strategic landscape is currently defined by a “fight-and-talk” dynamic, where intensified kinetic operations are being leveraged to shape the parameters of nascent, high-stakes diplomatic engagements. This week ...
• Greenland-US Dispute SITREP – Week Ending January 24, 2026 January 24, 2026
  1. Executive Summary The reporting period ending January 24, 2026, marks a definitive and volatile inflection point in the geopolitical history of the Arctic. What commenced as a resurgence of U.S. executive interest in the acquisition of Greenland—a semi-autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark—rapidly metastasized into a Tier-1 transatlantic security crisis, challenging the fundamental cohesion ...
• Cuba SITREP – Week Ending January 24, 2026 January 24, 2026
  Reporting Period: January 17, 2026 – January 24, 2026 Executive Summary The Republic of Cuba is currently navigating its most precarious existential crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, precipitated by the tectonic geopolitical shift of January 3, 2026. The U.S. military operation in Venezuela (“Operation Absolute Resolve”), which resulted in the ...
• Venezuela SITREP – Week Ending January 24, 2026 January 24, 2026
  REPORTING PERIOD: JANUARY 17 – JANUARY 24, 2026 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): The operational week ending January 24, 2026, marks the crystallization of a new, albeit fragile, status quo in Venezuela following the January 3 United States military intervention (“Operation Absolute Resolve”) that resulted in the capture and extraction of former President Nicolás Maduro. ...
• Navigating the U.S. Fiscal Crisis of 2026: Why the U.S. Can’t Just Print More Money January 20, 2026
  As of January 2026, the United States stands at a precipitous fiscal crossroads, facing a convergence of economic pressures that threaten the fundamental stability of the nation’s currency and its standing in the global order. The national debt has surpassed $38 trillion, a figure that now exceeds the total annual economic output of the nation, ...
• Cuba Situation Report – For the week ending January 17, 2026 January 17, 2026
  The geopolitical architecture of the Western Hemisphere has undergone a radical and potentially irreversible transformation in the second week of January 2026. Following the United States military’s Operation Absolute Resolve—the kinetic extraction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the neutralization of his executive security apparatus on January 3—the Republic of Cuba finds itself navigating the ...
• An Update on Venezuela for the week ending January 17, 2026 January 17, 2026
  The operational week of January 11–17, 2026, represents a critical juncture in the geopolitical history of the Western Hemisphere, defined by the consolidation of a new, externally managed governance architecture in Venezuela following the execution of Operation Absolute Resolve. The successful extraction of President Nicolás Maduro Moros and First Lady Cilia Flores by United States ...
• SITREP: THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN – Week Ending January 17, 2026 January 17, 2026
  The operational window of January 11 through January 17, 2026, represents a terminal inflection point for the Islamic Republic of Iran, characterized by the simultaneous convergence of a nationwide insurrection, catastrophic economic disintegration, and the degradation of the regime’s international deterrence posture. Intelligence assessments indicate that the clerical establishment, led by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, ...
• The US Greenland Arctic Strategy 2026 Crisis Analyzed January 17, 2026
  In January 2026, the geopolitical architecture of the High North faces its most severe stress test since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The United States, under the second administration of President Donald Trump, has formally transitioned its policy regarding Greenland from transactional diplomacy to a coercive strategic imperative. This report, compiled by a multi-disciplinary ...
• Situation Update: Iran’s Existential Crisis Intensifies – January 13, 2026 January 13, 2026
  The Islamic Republic of Iran is currently navigating the most acute existential crisis of its forty-seven-year history. As of 0800 Eastern Standard Time on January 13, 2026, the nationwide unrest that commenced on December 28, 2025, has metastasized from a localized economic grievance regarding currency devaluation and subsidy removal into a maximalist revolutionary movement aimed ...
• Putin’s Regime: Stability Amid Structural Weaknesses January 11, 2026
  As the Russian Federation navigates the mid-2020s, the regime of Vladimir Putin has defied initial Western prognostications of imminent collapse. Through a combination of institutional re-engineering, economic adaptation, and intensified repression, the Kremlin has successfully transitioned the state from a hybrid authoritarian model into a fully consolidated personalist dictatorship, specifically calibrated for the demands of ...

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