Fourth Gulf War: Washington Post confirms FW MAG's strategic takeaways 07/05/2026 | Editorial Team One month after the ceasefire between the United States-Israel and Iran, the Washington Post has published a detailed and exclusive analysis regarding the damage inflicted… [read more]

Iran escalation: on the brink of war? 05/05/2026 | Carolina Paizs Yesterday, the ceasefire between Iran and the United States - relatively stable since the 8 April truce - entered a phase of extreme fragility. The… [read more]

The Yerevan shift: building a European pillar beyond NATO nostalgia 05/05/2026 | Caterina Tani (reporting from Brussels) Europe has responded to Washington’s pullback by moving quickly to take control of its own strategic destiny, pairing a push for 'strategic autonomy' with a… [read more]

Iran, total impasse at Hormuz continues. An aviation fuel crisis looms 04/05/2026 | Pietro Batacchi The situation in the Strait of Hormuz remains deadlocked. President Trump announced, with his customary fanfare, the launch of an operation named FREEDOM, aimed at… [read more]

Mali - Jihadists and Tuareg on the offensive. Russian forces leave the North of the country 29/04/2026 | Francesco Bossi In the early hours of 25 April 2026, the Tuareg forces of the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), in coordination with al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadists (Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam… [read more]

EU unlocks €90 billion for Ukraine after Hungarian and energy realignment 23/04/2026 | Caterina Tani (reporting from Brussels) It took the end of the Orbán era and the restart of a Soviet-era pipeline for the European Union to finally untangle the knot of… [read more]

Who's in charge in Iran? The answer and its effects on the peace talks 21/04/2026 | Pietro Batacchi The second round of negotiations between the US and Iran, expected to get underway between today and tomorrow in Islamabad, is overshadowed by the uncertainty… [read more]

The Strait of Hormuz and Europe’s strategic circle squared 20/04/2026 | Caterina Tani (reporting from Brussels) The Strait of Hormuz is doing what decades of summits could not: forcing a solution to Europe’s strategic dilemma. For years, Europe has wrestled with… [read more]

France increases Defence spending - again 17/04/2026 | Fabio Di Felice French Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin has announced a €36 billion ($42 billion) increase to the defence budget over the next 4 years, as part of… [read more]

Iran, what's next? 07/04/2026 | Pietro Batacchi The war in Iran has reached a turning point. Today marks the deadline of one of President Trump's many ultimatums, in which he has threatened… [read more]

Fourth Gulf War: military analysis of the first phase of operations 31/03/2026 | Pietro Batacchi, Tommaso Massa, Andrea Mottola, Carolina Paizs At dawn on 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel opened hostilities against Iran, launching a series of so-called ‘pre-emptive’ air raids and setting… [read more]

Iran War: first cracks in Israel's missile shield 26/03/2026 | Pietro Batacchi In recent days, Iranian missiles have been breaching Israel's defensive shield with increasing frequency. This is the result of several converging factors. The first is… [read more]

More US aircraft head to the Middle East 26/03/2026 | TOMMASO MASSA As the broader US military build-up in the region continues to gather pace — with 2 Amphibious Ready Groups (ARG) and 2 Marine Expeditionary Units… [read more]

Ukraine, the case of the LANCET loitering munition over Kyiv 20/03/2026 | Igor Markic In the early hours of March 16th, Russian forces carried out a new drone attack on Kyiv and its surroundings, launching over 30 drones of… [read more]

Oil&Gas, drones and missiles: the Middle East's energy infrastructure war is now open 19/03/2026 | Editorial Team In the last 24 hours, the Middle East has witnessed the most concentrated sequence of strikes against energy infrastructure since the start of the War,… [read more]

The EU and the Iran crisis: tightrope walking amid growing assertiveness 17/03/2026 | Caterina Tani (reporting from Brussels) The European Union is navigating the Iran crisis with a clear line: protect its interests, assert its strategic autonomy, and refuse - for now -… [read more]

Iran: the costs of War and the global geoeconomic shock 09/03/2026 | Pietro Batacchi The Third Gulf War - allow us to name it so for simplicity —is now escalating to alarming levels. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed for… [read more]

Sustained US–Israeli strikes in Iran and Tehran’s response in the Gulf 03/03/2026 | Andrea Mottola US-Israeli air operations in Iran have continued at a steady pace over the last 36 hours. Since the early hours of yesterday, Israel has also… [read more]

NATO stakeholders set out steps for further increasing CUI security 03/03/2026 | Dr Lee Willett (reporting from Gothenburg) Further enhancing cross-government and multinational collaboration, and further harnessing technology, are key steps NATO stakeholders can take in continuing to augment capacity and capability to… [read more]

More warheads, less transparency - the hardening of French nuclear strategy 02/03/2026 | Marco Giulio Barone Today, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech at Île Longue, officially updating France’s nuclear posture. The speech confirmed the five-pillar architecture of French deterrence… [read more]