Author - Asso Prof King's College London/ Royal College of Defence Studies - Fellow @KingsMiddleEast - CEO of MENA analytica Ltd
Interests: MENA, Gulf, Network-centric statecraft
Andreas Krieg, a senior lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King's College London, said that while Hezbollah operations had been disrupted by the past week's attacks, the group's networked organisational structure helped make it an extremely resilient force.
"This is the most formidable enemy Israel has ever faced on the battlefield, not because of numbers and tech but in terms of resilience."
#Qatar's navy is due to become one of the largest in the Gulf
Here 👇🏼 the first images of the M23 submarine produced in Italy for the Qatari navy - the first submarine in the GCC
"Dr Andreas Krieg , a King’s College London academic who studies the conflict, said: “The story of #Wagner in the African continent starts in the #UAE, they gave them the seed funding to found their base in Libya.
“There is a strategic alignment of interest between Russia and UAE because oppose political Islam and civil society more generally.”
The Zionist state has a notorious reputation for using AI-backed systems to surveil and attack Palestinians. And the new treaty, with loose statements and exemptions for national security, could intensify Tel Aviv’s oppression.
Palestinians giving us lessons in mental resilience
"Evacuated to Qatar from the chaos of Gaza, nine-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud Youssef Ajjour still dreams of becoming a pilot one day despite losing his arms in an Israeli rocket attack"
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gazan-child-amputee-dreams-big-after-evacuation-qatar-2024-09-12/
The #UAE's hub position in the #Sudan networks is more complex than Emirati arms in and Sudanese gold out
Abu Dhabi has created a multilayered network of logistics, mercenary, financial and extractive companies that give the UAE strategic depth
https://apnews.com/article/un-sudan-uae-weapons-government-paramilitary-war-859bf38f1a6f6a5647fb528d3818f5bb
The Sudanese government accused the United Arab Emirates of providing weapons to its rival paramilitary force and prolonging the 17-month war. The UAE called the allegations “utterly false” and “baseless” and accused the government of refusing to negotiate peace with its enemy. Their latest clash came during a U.N. Security Council meeting Wednesday where its 15 members voted unanimously to extend an arms embargo in Sudan’s vast western Darfur region – a key battleground of the rival forces – until Sept. 12, 2025. Sudanese Ambassador Al-Harith Mohamed also accused the UAE of “profiting from this war through the illegal exploitation of gold.”
