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This detailed infographic diagram illustrates a multi-layered missile defense system, organized across four altitude zones: low-atmosphere, mid-atmosphere, upper-atmosphere, and exosphere. The system features four numbered layers, integrating multiple components including ground-based Patriot batteries and THAAD systems, sea-based SM-3 missiles on a guided-missile destroyer, and the Arrow system.
Reports
The Magazine War: Regional Missile Defense Against Iran
The region can defeat Iranian raids. It cannot yet outlast Iranian arsenals. The difference is measured in interceptor stockpiles and factory output.
July 27, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Reports
Health and Human Services Hidden Handouts
Exposing Millions in Federal Funding to Radical Islamist and Terror-Linked Organizations
July 22, 2026
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Benjamin Baird
Reports
The Waqf Maneuver: The Secret Restructuring of CAIR’s Real Estate
CAIR Secretly Surrendered Its National Headquarters to an Islamic Trust Using an Insider Corporate Shell
July 21, 2026
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Gregg Roman
The provided reports detail how Turkey has engineered a structural anti-American doctrine through state-aligned think tanks, even as it relies on American aerospace technology to build its own autonomous defense industry. In response, the assessments argue that Washington must stop unconditionally "selling the rope" to Ankara and instead tie all future defense procurement to measurable behavioral changes.
Reports
The Anatomy of Turkish Anti-Americanism
Ending the Subsidy: Why the United States Must Stop Extending Credit to an Institutionally Anti-American NATO Ally
June 29, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Reports
From Subsidy to Sovereignty
Restructuring the U.S.-Israel Defense Relationship for the Post-Aid Era
May 5, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Reports
The Ceasefire Illusion
Iran After Forty Days of War
April 10, 2026
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Mehrdad Marty Youssefiani
Reports
Breaking the Gate
An Operational Concept for Reopening the Strait of Hormuz Without a Ground Campaign
March 16, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Reports
The Shortest Way Through
A Doctrine for the Iranian Resistance
March 16, 2026
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Gregg Roman
Reports
The Longest Way Home
Classical Strategy and the Path from Air Campaign to Iranian Liberation
March 16, 2026
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Gregg Roman
An F-35C Lightning II, attached to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, prepares to launch from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in the Arabian Sea, Feb. 15, 2026. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman)
Reports
Iran Strike Scenarios: Retaliation, Transition, and the Path Forward
An Extended Analysis
February 28, 2026
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Gregg Roman
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Can Saudi Arabia Finance Both War and Vision 2030?
The Kingdom Can Withstand the Current Pressure Caused by the Iran War, but Only If It Defines Its Priorities
September 7, 2026
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Umud Shokri
The disbanding of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on August 25 and the dissolution of the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North East Syria mark the latest in a series of setbacks to Kurdish political fortunes in the region over the last half-decade.
Middle East Forum Online
The Kurds Rose as Syria and Iraq Collapsed; Now, Their Fortunes Are Reversing
A Decade Ago, Kurdish Forces Had Reached an Unprecedented High Point
September 6, 2026
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Jonathan Spyer
“Lawdan Bazargan, you are absolutely finished,” Saeidi says in a Persian-language post on X last month, verified as accurate by The Post. “I am coming after you with an army … Lawdan, we will do something to you that will be recorded in history.” Image: Old Main at the University of Arkansas.
Research
Former University of Arkansas Professor Shirin Saiedi Vows to Go After Critics ‘With an Army’
Pro-Iran Professor Blames the End of Her Career in the U.S. on Lawdan Bazargan
September 6, 2026
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Benjamin Weinthal