RBT's Defense Blog

  The political landscape shook when the Associated Press projected Dr. Abdul El-Sayed as the winner of Michigan’s high-stakes Democratic U.S. Senate primary. Defying the national Democrat Party establishment and overcame tens of millions of dollars in hostile outside spending. The 41-year-old Arab muslim physician, epidemiologist, and former public health director narrowly defeated Israeli lobby establishment-backed favorite Rep. Haley Stevens. El-Sayed is set to become the first Muslim-American candidate nominated for the U.S. Senate by a major political party, heading to November’s mid-term election against Republican nominee Mike Rogers. David vs. Goliath: The Financial Numbers Breakdown The 2026 Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate primary was the most expensive primary in American congressional history . While El-Sayed raised a respectable US$14.5 million directly from grassroots donors, outside Super PACs drenched the state’s airwaves and mailboxes with unprecedented sum...

            For years, regional strategy in the Middle East operated around a predictable script of calibrated counter-force signalling. When military strikes occurred, retaliation typically focused on direct military assets—airfields, missile launching sites, intelligence installations, and forward military bases. However, recent conflict dynamics indicate a fundamental paradigm shift: - Tehran has increasingly pivoted away from pure counter-force targeting toward a multidomain "punishment campaign" focused on counter-value targets. Rather than seeking tactical parity on a conventional battlefield against superior air power, the strategy focuses on holding high-value economic infrastructure, energy corridors, and systemic network nodes at risk. This shift has become visible in the last 7 days as USA and Israel hit civilian targets in Iran, then as a tit-for-tat action Iran is hitting American interest...