RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)The new era doesn't make Eurasian powers dominant over Western powers. It just means that neither can dominate the other via the oceans. The Iran win is due to changes in military technology that favor non-small states over foreign powers of any size generally, and coastal states over foreign attempts to control or freely navigate (if the coastal state opposes it) abutting littoral areas and straits in particular. The military technology changes deprivilege maritime power projecti ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)U.S. reassertion of control at Panama (kicking out the Chinese presence) probably helped motivate it along, but more basically it's an outcome of evolving military technology (cheap missiles and drones now accurate enough to hit ships), the U.S. vs. China superpower rivalry, and the geographical advantages of Iran.For any 21st century superpower to remain a superpower, it must ally with strategically located large countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Iran, the Philippines, Yemen ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Iran has not been very aggressive with their own military. With their proxies yes, but not with their own. Even though they knew in theory they could control Hormuz now, they were unlikely to take the initiative to do so until triggered by existential necessity. What they are doing by asserting such strong coastal state rights is quite the pioneering experiment that would have gone over far more badly in the maritime world had they themselves initiated war to conduct it.Their cont ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Iran has not been very aggressive with their own military. With their proxies yes, but not with their own. Even though they knew in theory they could control Hormuz now, they were unlikely to take the initiative to do so until triggered by existential necessity. What they are doing by asserting such strong coastal state rights is quite the pioneering experiment that would have gone over far more badly in the maritime world had they themselves initiated war to conduct it.Their cont ...

A mystery craft has been spotted in China resembling a vehicle designed to avoid radar by flying just a few meters above the sea, suggesting Beijing may be experimenting with a Soviet-era model the US shelved last year https://t.co/fbEGHXbRcw ...

A top US army official said the service is “very close” to fielding the US military’s first hypersonic weapon, a forecast at odds with recent Pentagon assessments that more testing is needed before it should be deployed https://t.co/bqlosazTZq ...

They have been able to muster high volumes of strike sorties and missile launches in Iran because they can identify targets more precisely and more quickly than ever before possible https://t.co/fats0KMjCz ...

One of the biggest revolutions over the past 15 years of war has been the rise of the drones. Remotely piloted vehicles that do everything from conduct air strikes to dismantle roadside bombs. Now a new generation of drones is coming. only this time they are autonomous, able to operate on their own without humans controlling them from somewhere with a joystick. Some autonomous machines are run by artificial intelligence which allows them to learn, getting better each time. It's early in the revolution and n ...

The US Army has sent 10,000 interceptor drones developed in Ukraine to the Middle East as it looks to repel Iranian attacks without using up high-cost missile defenses, according to US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll https://t.co/4UvrTyNEPi ...

One Ukrainian military-technology expert describes the shutdown as a “catastrophe” for the Russians. But some strategists are cautious about calling it a “game changer”. We explain why https://t.co/2kzwLz7LyZ ...