#Historical Analysis

Articles (9)

• 🇺🇸 Trump’s Iran playbook was written in the 1980s — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  From oil threats to ultimatums, the US president has a decades-old view of how to confront Tehran

  Related: #Foreign Policy
• 🇺🇦 Crimea: The War Before the War | Part 2 — 20/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  Russia’s takeover of Crimea did not begin in 2014. In the second part of "Crimea: The War Before the War," the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit examines how Moscow moved from early pr...

  Related: #Geopolitical Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Geopolitics may test the World Cup — a new book draws lessons from the past — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Countries all around the world will soon send players to the U.S. to compete in one of soccer's biggest events. Roger Bennett explores how past competitions met cultural and geopolitical moments.

  Related: #Sports Geopolitics
• 🇺🇸 Iran's 50-year war on America: A timeline of terror and what comes next — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  One regime, five decades, nearly 1,000 American lives. What looks like a brand new war in 2026 is actually the climax of a 50-year shadow campaign fought throughout the Middle East and primarily aimed...

  Related: #Geopolitical Conflict
• 🇺🇸 If students want to understand politics, they should start with Ancient Rome — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  The Roman Republic fell roughly 2,000 years ago — the culmination of a series of events including Julius Caesar's assassination 2,069 years ago today. Yet the republic's ruin still influences how we e...

  Related: #Political Education
• 🇬🇧 I had a ringside seat for the Iranian revolution. Foreign meddling didn’t work then either | Paul Taylor — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Even as the first western journalist to interview Ayatollah Khomeini, I had no inkling of what was to come. Perhaps we should have learned from history</p><p>Watching Iran in flames, I can’t help w...

  Related: #Geopolitics
• 🇺🇸 Historical context is necessary to understanding the situation in Iran — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  'The Iranians’ takeover of the American Embassy in 1979 is easier to understand if you know that, in 1953, the U.S. removed their prime minister to install a monarch subservient to the U.S.,' writes a...

  Related: #Iranian Affairs
• 🇺🇸 Strategic bombing worked only once — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Strategic bombing with conventional weapons has never worked.

  Related: #Military Strategy
• 🇺🇸 10/20/2024: Relief, N.C.; Navalny; The Swingiest County; The Cap Arcona — 21/02/2026 [USA]

  First, a look at Helene recovery efforts in North Carolina. Then, Yulia Navalnaya: The 60 Minutes Interview. Next, a look inside a battleground-state swing county. And, a report on the sinking of the ...

  Related: #Disaster Recovery, #Political Affairs