Open Dialogue Research Journal
US Bases are Vulnerable to Drone Attacks On October 4th the US pulled its 12 B-1 strategic bombers out of Fairford, UK and returned them to the United States. Reports say the planes returned to Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City, South Dakota. The bombers were pulled out when […]
Last week’s US inflation report offered some encouraging news. Core price momentum appeared to be easing as of August, and households under cost-of-living strain could be forgiven for hoping the worst had passed. Commodity analysts are urging caution. The record run-up in diesel prices in the United States and Europe […]
Since China declined to radically accelerate multipolarity by defying the US’ sanctions against Russia and cutting Ukraine off from drone-related sales, it’s poetic justice for Russia to radically exacerbate the US’ pressure campaign against China through a resource-centric rapprochement with the US that will derail China’s superpower trajectory. Trump announced […]
The central problem confronting Donald Trump after more than seven months of war with Iran is no longer simply whether the United States can inflict additional damage on Tehran. It is whether Washington can define what political outcome would constitute success, explain how military operations are supposed to produce that […]
In early October 2026, 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East, died in Russia’s Irkutsk Region. The official wording from Rospotrebnadzor was pneumonia of undetermined etiology. No microorganisms linked to her professional activities were found in the samples. Two commissions […]
Regardless of however the “friendly competition” evolves between Germany and Poland over leading NATO 3.0 , one thing is certain, and it’s that US-led creative energy diplomacy will likely shape the post-war European security architecture. Reuters cited five unnamed sources to report that US Special Envoy for Russia Jared Kushner […]
Last week’s US inflation report offered some encouraging news. Core price momentum appeared to be easing as of August, and households under cost-of-living strain could be forgiven for hoping the worst had passed. Commodity analysts are urging caution. The record run-up in diesel prices in the United States and Europe […]
In his second term, US President Donald Trump has gone the way of past executive tribunes of the American imperium in seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher. This has been bracing, not least for a foreign policy establishment inured to the hypocrisies of virtue concealed in the international […]
This incisive article by CRG Research Associate Robert J. Burrowes was first published in July 2025. On about 20 September 2001, just ten days after the destruction of the World Trade Centre buildings on 9/11, recently retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark was visiting the Pentagon for meetings with Secretary Rumsfeld and […]
The trend was already tracing itself through the corridors of power, but the world’s most powerful defence department has fallen, most heavily, for the use of artificial intelligence at virtually every level of its operations. Even before the Pentagon’s intoxicating pursuit of artificial intelligence was announced, the Defence Advanced Research […]
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