Elisabeth Braw
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- Sep 24, 2026
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The Law of the Sea Is in Trouble (opens the original)
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Get audio access with any FP subscription. In the waters off the British coast, volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) are doing what they’ve always done: rescue people in trouble. But these days, some Brits are getting upset with the rescuers—to the point of attacking them or those they’re saving—because many of the people that they’re trying to save are attempting to enter the United Kingdom illegally. In the Caribbean and the Pacific, the U.S. military has attacked num
Berlin Is Shedding Light on the Gray Zone (opens the original)
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Get audio access with any FP subscription. Identifying state sponsors of gray-zone acts is extremely difficult—by design. But if a targeted country manages to identify the state sponsor of an attack against it, should it make its identity known? Earlier this month, Germany announced that Russia was behind the incident at Leipzig/Halle Airport in which a suspicious drone was identified, thankfully before it could do damage. Berlin’s announcement was a brave decision, because attribution, particul
Cognitive Dissonance Dominates Hormuz (opens the original)
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Get audio access with any FP subscription. “I have just been informed by the United States Navy that all mines have been removed and/or detonated from within the International Waters of the Strait of Hormuz,” U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Aug. 25. At the beginning of the war, Iran had mined the Strait of Hormuz’s Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS), the official shipping lane that runs through the middle of the strait. Mines, of course, make it extremely risky for ships to sa
Cognitive Dissonance Dominates Hormuz (opens the original)
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Get audio access with any FP subscription. “I have just been informed by the United States Navy that all mines have been removed and/or detonated from within the International Waters of the Strait of Hormuz,” U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Aug. 25. At the beginning of the war, Iran had mined the Strait of Hormuz’s Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS), the official shipping lane that runs through the middle of the strait. Mines, of course, make it extremely risky for ships to sa
Gray-Zone Warfare Picks Easy Targets in Germany (opens the original)
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Get audio access with any FP subscription. A sophisticated drone discovered inside a German airport. An aircraft colliding with a mysterious object near the same airport. Interference in upcoming state elections. Foreign agents scoping out a little-known defense CEO. Germany has been the target of a wide range of mysterious activities over the last couple of months—the type that analysts usually label as “gray-zone” (my preferred term) or “hybrid” warfare. Hybrid threats, in Frank Hoffmann’s cla
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