The 12-Month Fuse: America’s Food & Fuel Cost Outlook Through 2027 – Part 2
Part II: diesel at $6, beef up 10% and a strong El Nino building. A tracker of what US households and Washington should expect on food and fuel to 2027.
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Focuses on the “Green Transition” and the security of critical minerals (Lithium, Cobalt, Rare Earths). It tracks the geopolitical maneuvering over energy infrastructure and the impact of climate-driven migration on regional stability.
Part II: diesel at $6, beef up 10% and a strong El Nino building. A tracker of what US households and Washington should expect on food and fuel to 2027.
Part I: a 2015 CNA war game modeled a fertilizer-fuel-food shock from a closed Gulf chokepoint. In 2026 the Iran war, Hormuz and $6 diesel made it real.
A decade of Chinese state targeting of US gas pipelines, the Colonial shutdown that never touched the pipeline’s OT, and why gas disruption hits the grid.
How hostile actors tap and cut subsea cables and subvert landing stations, and CommandEleven’s Mosaic Defense model for hardening that infrastructure.
How proxy networks exploit grid SCADA systems, customs databases and corrupt officials on contested frontiers, and CommandEleven’s utility-denial model.
Intelligence dossier on the strategic expansion of the Alaskan Command and the integration of the Ambler Access Project within the Arctic security framework.
US-China rivalry over South America’s lithium and rare earths: Chinese stakes and the Chancay port versus Washington’s financing and partnership counters.
Arctic 2026: Russia’s militarised Northern Sea Route, the China-Russia Polar Silk Road, and the US-Canada-Finland ICE Pact to close the icebreaker gap.
Intelligence dossier analyzing the territorial war between ISGS and JNIM in the Liptako-Gourma region and the collapse of state authority in the central Sahel.
Part 2: the Garrison State’s sanction-proof finances, its 72-hour threat matrix against the Fujairah pipeline, and resilience gaps in Gulf energy hubs.
Part 1: how the IRGC absorbed Iran’s oil ministry and central bank during the 2026 ceasefire, and why the UAE’s Habshan-Fujairah bypass is now its target.
Clinical analysis of the Petroyuan shift and the “Toll Mechanism” in the Strait of Hormuz. How geofinancial attrition is rerouting global energy supply chains.
The main reason behind the waste of water is lack of reservoirs and proper management of water. This crisis has resulted in another major issue – shortage of power. To generate power with little impact to climate, Pakistan needs environment friendly hydropower generation projects.
Lt Gen Tariq Khan (Retd) assesses US aims in Afghanistan, CPEC and Pakistan’s nukes, and argues Pakistan’s interest now lies in a US defeat in Afghanistan.
The statement of Mr. Ahsan Iqbal clearly expresses that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is pivotal for both Pakistan and China. It is a $ 46 billion project, which will connect Chinese province of Xinjiang with Pakistani port of Gwadar through the land route.
India never paid much attention to Gilgit-Baltistan or even claimed it along with Kashmir, so much so that the world did not even know that the ‘Kashmir dispute’ included the region of Gilgit-Baltistan, it was thought to be just the Kashmir valley which was claimed by both countries. Indian claim on Gilgit-Baltistan is a relatively recent development because it feels threatened by increasing Chinese influence and the China Pakistan Economic Corridor CPEC.
The China Pakistan Economic Corridor runs through one of the most important and central geo-strategic locations in South Asia, its main port Gwadar’s natural layout and depth enables largest tonnage ships to dock there, a characteristic which is absent in Dubai and Chahbahar ports.