ZB: Season Finale
It is time...
Zak Azimov
Zeus’s Bolt
ZB: The Mountains Remember
Issued: 20 October 2025 The Flashpoint The Durand Line ignites once more. Pakistani F-16s strike Kunar Province posts on 18 October; Taliban fighters answer with 107mm rockets. A Qatar-brokered truce lies in tatters. This is not mere border friction—it is the unmasking of a deeper war over identity and
Chief Praetor's Desk
CPD: Magna Carta 2025
There are ages when power hides in plain sight. The banners still fly, the parliaments still meet, the presidents still speak of sovereignty.
Chief Praetor's Desk
CPD: Twenty Twenty Nine
History rarely ends with bangs; it ends with hinges. Not a single moment, but several pivot points grinding together until the weight of an old order collapses and something new takes its place. For our century, one such hinge comes in 2029. The stage is not set by battles in
Cassandra Brief
CB: October 2025
Saudi–Pakistan Pact: A Post-Atlantic Axis Forms Bottom Line Up Top: A formal defense pact transforms a long-standing covert relationship into the most consequential non-Western security alignment of the decade. This is not an anti-Iran bloc but a hedge against strategic abandonment. The Shift: The "Islamic Solidarity Defense Agreement&