By ISSF Admin The Fracture of the Khaleeji Shield The air over the Gulf of Aden was thick with humidity and the smell of salt spray on the morning of December 30, 2025. In the ancient port city of Mukalla, Yemen, dockworkers were busy unloading the Greenland, a cargo vessel flagged out of St. Kitts. …
Brothers in Blood: The Secret War Between Saudi and the UAE Read More »
By Professor Habib Al Badawi Abstract Sanae Takaichi’s October 2025 ascent to Japan’s premiership marks a structural reorientation of Japanese governance beyond a simple Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership transition. I term this shift “command governance”— a model that centralizes decision-making in the Prime Minister’s Office, prioritizes executive action over consensus-building, and transforms fiscal policy …
Governing by Resolve: The Takaichi Effect on Japan’s Domestic Power Architecture Read More »
By: ISSF Strategic Desk | January 11, 2026 As of this morning, the Islamic Republic of Iran is not just trembling; it is undergoing a tectonic dissolution. The streets of Tehran are no longer arenas of protest but battlegrounds of a revolutionary endgame. The Rial has cratered, trading at a catastrophic 1.45 million to the …
By ISSF Admin @mujifren Prologue: The Smog of Deception In the choking winter smog of Dhaka, December 2025, the air did not just smell of exhaust and burning refuse; it reeked of a nation decomposing. To the uninitiated observer, the chaos gripping Bangladesh might have appeared as the tragic growing pains of a “Second Revolution,” …
Who Killed Osman Hadi? The Truth Behind the Smoke and the Fire on India’s Border Read More »
Authored By: Prof. Habib Badawi, Mr. Ali Kassab ABSTRACT This study examines the December 2024 collapse of the Syrian regime as a case of intelligence-led displacement—regime change achieved through covert paralysis of command structures rather than military defeat. Within eleven days, a government that survived thirteen years of civil war ceased functioning without decisive battle, …
By Habib-Al Badawi Introduction: The End of an Era The November 2025 National Security Strategy represents the first comprehensive articulation since the Cold War’s end of an American vision that explicitly abandons ideological frameworks shaping global posture for three decades. The document positions the United States not as the architect of “liberal order” but as …
By ISSF Admin @mujifren PROLOGUE: THE SILENCE OF GRAVITY Karachi, December 2016. Physics is impartial. When a body falls from the 8th floor of a building, the result is inevitable. But the death of Javed Khanani was not a matter of physics; it was a matter of geopolitics. On a dusty afternoon in the upscale …
THE BANKER, THE GENERAL, THE GANGSTER: The Trinity That Bled India Read More »
By Professor Habib Al Badawi Introduction The rupture between Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene marks one of the most revealing confrontations inside the Republican Party since the rise of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. What began as an alliance fueled by grievance politics and populist energy has evolved into a public collision …
When MAGA Collides: Trump vs. Greene in a Battle for the GOP’s Soul Read More »
By Habib Al Badawi When Killing Becomes Commerce: The Milan Investigation as Moral Reckoning The Siege of Sarajevo remains one of the starkest illustrations of systematic violence against civilians in late twentieth-century Europe. Beneath the familiar narrative of snipers and shelling lies a more disturbing layer: the Milan investigation reveals that killing civilians in Sarajevo …
Hunting Humans: The Paid Killers of Sarajevo and the Milan Investigation Read More »
Prof. Habib BadawiDepartment of History, Lebanese University, Beirut, LebanonEmail: [email protected] | [email protected]: 0000-0002-6452-8379 | Scopus Author ID: 58675152100 Mr. Daniel AyoubDepartment of History, Lebanese University, Beirut, LebanonEmail: [email protected] The Horn of Africa occupies a unique strategic position at the intersection of Africa, the Middle East, and critical maritime trade routes connecting Europe and Asia. Comprising …
