A Song of Oil and Water

The Gulf runs the strangest foreign policy on earth. Two resources explain it, and one of them arrived 5,000 years before the other.

Oct 2 • People's Art of War

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September 2026

You can’t rent victory

Why the Saudi backed forces are retreating from the Houthis

Sep 25 • People's Art of War

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How the US ran out of interceptors

The world's richest military is standing in its own line.

Sep 3 • People's Art of War

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August 2026

How nations manipulate your feed

The three layers states are building to win an info war

Aug 23 • People's Art of War

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July 2026

The Oil No Country Wants to Sell

And the four reasons why 32+ governments maintain a strategic reserve of oil

Jul 29 • People's Art of War

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What makes a great naval chokepoint?

3 factors determine if a strait becomes a flashpoint

Jul 7 • People's Art of War

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April 2026

The Thousand Year Chokepoint

Empires rise, empires fall. And the Strait of Hormuz has outlasted them all

Apr 1 • People's Art of War

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March 2026

Your feed is a battlefield. Here's how to stop losing.

Five attack vectors, three countermoves, and why the most dangerous thing is react and doomscroll.

Mar 20 • People's Art of War

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The Great Aerial Choke Point

How the Iran War and Ukraine funneled global trade into a narrow strip of Azerbaijani sky

Mar 11 • People's Art of War

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The War You're Not Seeing

6 Observations from the Iran War's invisible info war

Mar 6 • People's Art of War

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February 2026

Ghosts of the Rising Sun

Can Japan rearm under PM Takaichi?

Feb 22 • People's Art of War

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How to win without fighting

Using John Boyd's OODA loop to understand a often misunderstood quote from Sunzi's Art of War

Feb 7 • People's Art of War

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