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Israel’s Enduring Offensive and Defensive Capabilities

The updated Israeli defense structure reflects a strategic shift toward preparing for Iranian ballistic-missile threats, rather than primarily Gaza-based rocket fire.
Iran is determined to produce a fully functional nuclear weapon and support its partners and proxies with missiles and drones.
In this article, I write about Israel’s success in air defence, it’s partnership with the US and how practitioners working in national security may learn and analyse how Israel, surrounded by enemies, is responding to the barrage of threats that they have intercepted since October 7th 2023.

Influx of foreign fighters in Africa

The influx of foreign terrorist fighters, particularly from Asia, into Africa’s conflict zones, such as the Islamic State East Africa Province, indicates the continent’s emergence as the new epicenter for global terrorism.

An Apolitical Approach to Humanitarian Assistance!

An apolitical approach to humanitarian assistance was embraced by Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah affected the island in December 2025. Both government and the opposition came together to rise above politics. The epitome of the bipartisanship was the Bandaranaike Memorial National Foundation chaired by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga contributing USD 830,000 (Rs. 250 million) to the government fund..

Trump envisions an America “safer, richer, freer, greater, and more powerful than ever before.”

This week the Trump Administration released its ‘National Security Strategy’.

Rather than dominate the world, US strategy under Trump is to intervene only when US interests are threatened or at risk.

The US prioritized the Middle East, the prime theater of superpower competition, until 2011. However, with the rise of China and the U.S. pivot to Asia, Trump has made a comeback to the Middle East after the Hamas led terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 and the threat of extremism spilling over worldwide.

Israel kills Hezbollah’s New Chief of Staff

Now that Iran has started to rearm Hezbollah once again, Israel struck Lebanon’s capital on November 23, 2025. Without an evacuation warning, Israel struck Lebanon for the first time since June 2025, killing Hezbollah’s Chief of Staff Haitham Ali Tabataba’i.

Letter to Vatican Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher on your visit to Sri Lanka

Dear Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Welcome to Sri Lanka! I am pleased to see that you have met the Prime Minister and that you will be visiting the Easter Sunday attack sites in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is a beautiful country with wonderful people. Ten years after the end of the three-decade war, the entire nation was shocked by the Easter Sunday attack in 2019.

Trump’s comments on Nigeria presents an opportunity for peace in Africa

On November 2, 2025, the US President Donald J. Trump announced that he instructed the US Department of War to prepare for attacks in Nigeria – “if the Nigerian government continues to allow the murder of Christians.” Trump also said that the administration is halting all economic aid to Nigeria.

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The end game: A terror-free Gaza

On Oct 28, 2025, the fighting resumed.

The IDF Air Force F16s bombing resumed strikes against Hamas.

The limited operation was in retaliation to Hamas handing over the remnants of a body of a hostage on October 27 that the IDF had already recovered.

The IDF stated that the body of the deceased hostage handed over by Hamas was recovered from a building, and then covered with sand and staged.

When the Red Cross arrived, Hamas pretended to have just recovered the body from beneath the ground.

The IDF was observing the entire act of Hamas deception from its observation post. Israel stated that Hamas knows where the captive hostages are and continues to play games.

Will the people of Palestine and the people of Israel ever live in security? Read the full article below.