June 2025

The Secret War on Iran: Decades of Sabotage, Sanctions, and Strikes

Analysis, Crises, History, Politics

For over four decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been under siege—not just through sanctions and speeches, but via a relentless, largely undeclared campaign of sabotage, cyberwarfare, assassinations, and airstrikes. Orchestrated primarily by Israel and the United States, this “secret war” has targeted Iran’s nuclear ambitions, military infrastructure, and top scientists with precision and

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B2 and an Bunker Bomb (Image: US Air Force)

Air Supremacy in Tehran’s Shadow: The US Joins Israel’s High-Stakes Bombing Campaign

News, Strategy, Technology, Weapons

The skies over Iran have entered a new era of vulnerability. As Israel’s elite F‑35I “Adir” fighters carved deep into Iranian airspace, the United States launched a simultaneous strike using its GBU‑57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs), marking both countries’ most audacious joint operation against Tehran’s nuclear network. Israeli F‑35s, supported by F‑15s and F‑16s, led

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Iran’s Hypersonic Threat: Can Israel’s Missile Shield Keep Up?

Crises, Technology

Iran fields a wide range of ballistic missiles, from traditional systems following high-arcing trajectories to newer hypersonic types capable of low-level flight and evasive manoeuvres. These pose a serious challenge to even the most advanced air defence systems—Israel’s included. Missile defence isn’t optional for a country like Israel. Under near-constant threat from Iran and its

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Iron Dome defending agaist rockets.

Lessons From Israel’s Missile War: Lasers and AI to the Fore

Crises, Technology, Weapons

The 2025 Iran–Israel missile war is already the biggest test ever of Israel’s integrated air defences. It has reverberated globally, spurring interest in advanced air and missile defence systems. Decision-makers far beyond the Middle East are comparing notes on which air defence technologies actually work under fire and looking into strengthening their defence against the

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Charles De Gaulle's The War Memoirs

Bunker Books: Charles de Gaulle’s War Memoirs (1955)

Book Review

A Blueprint for European Backbone? Charles de Gaulle’s War Memoirs are not easy reading. They are grandiose, deliberate, and unmistakably self-serving. Yet in the brittle geopolitical moment we now find ourselves in—2025, with the United States shifting inward and unpredictable—Europe’s leaders could do far worse than sit down and actually read – or listen to

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