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The intelligence war is turning against the Houthis (opens the original)
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Senior Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. The collapse of Yemen’s western front was not primarily the result of sheer Houthi numbers. It resulted from a fused Russian-Iranian command system in which elements of Russia’s space-based geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) and signals intelligence (SIGINT) capabilities were integrated into an Iranian-led command-and-control (C2) system supporting Houthi operations. Human penetration of Tariq Saleh’s National Resistance Forc
The post-American Middle East is beginning to take shape (opens the original)
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Senior Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. For years, Saudi Arabia’s strategic patience was mistaken for strategic dependence. Riyadh absorbed provocations, avoided unnecessary wars, preserved its relationship with the United States, and concentrated on internal transformation and development. That restraint was never an acceptance that an American-designed regional security order would endure indefinitely. The mutual defence agreement signed in Mecca yesterday betw
Why Saudi Arabia holds the key to Palestinian statehood (opens the original)
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Senior Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Nearly eight decades after the establishment of Israel, the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state remains the defining question of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Wars have been fought, peace treaties signed and diplomatic initiatives launched, yet this central strategic issue remains unresolved. Today, Saudi Arabia is at the forefront of the efforts to establish a Palestinian state and deliver a lasting peace arrangement wi
The Houthis may soon discover the limits of Saudi strategic patience (opens the original)
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Senior Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. The Houthi declaration that they intend to block Saudi shipping and vessels bound for Saudi ports in the Red Sea is not another act of revolutionary theatre. It is Iran’s latest attempt to test Saudi Arabia’s strategic patience through one of its most capable regional proxies. That is a dangerous gamble because Riyadh has spent nearly a decade avoiding the wider regional war that Tehran increasingly appears determined to pr
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