Category Critical Infrastructure

Was the Kamchatka Earthquake Just the Beginning? Aftershocks, Foreshocks, and the Real 2025 Tsunami Threat

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Was the Kamchatka Earthquake Just the Beginning? Aftershocks, Foreshocks, and the Real 2025 Tsunami Threat Introduction: A Quake Felt Across the Pacific On July 29, 2025, at approximately 17:46 local time, a magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck off the eastern coast…

Flashpoint Hormuz: Risk Assessment and Strategic Forecast Amid U.S.-Iran-Israel Conflict

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Flashpoint Hormuz: Risk Assessment and Strategic Forecast Amid U.S.-Iran-Israel Conflict Executive Summary Increasingly Intense hostilities between Israel and Iran since June 13, 2025 have raised the specter of Iran attempting to close or disrupt the Strait of Hormuz within the next…

The Deep End: Trump, the Great Lakes, and Canada’s Invisible Sovereignty Crisis

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The Deep End: Trump, the Great Lakes, and Canada’s Invisible Sovereignty Crisis I. Introduction – “The Border Beneath the Surface” In the dying days of his first term, Donald Trump floated the idea of buying Greenland. It was absurd—until it…

Breaking the Columbia River Treaty: Why the U.S. Just Gambled with the Future of the Pacific Northwest

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Breaking the Columbia River Treaty: Why the U.S. Just Gambled with the Future of the Pacific Northwest 1. Introduction – When the Floodgates Close For over half a century, the Columbia River Treaty quietly kept the Pacific Northwest from descending…

USAID’s Top 10 Failures – No. 10: The Gomal Zam Dam Failure

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USAID’s Top 10 Failures – No. 10: The Gomal Zam Dam Failure Introduction: A $114 Million Money Pit That’s Already Falling Apart The Gomal Zam Dam was supposed to be a modern engineering marvel, bringing hydropower and irrigation to a…