Senior Fellow Department of War Studies King's College London (KCL)
Nawaf Obaid is a political scientist that works on intelligence and security issues. He specialises in the history of war and defence doctrines, with a particular emphasis on nuclear posturing.
Iranian mining operations, drone strikes and missile attacks on shipping have reduced traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to extremely low levels, with only a...
Since 2015, Saudi Arabia has faced sustained missile and drone pressure. Ballistic missiles, land-attack cruise missiles, and one-way attack UAVs have been used, testing geometry,...
For years, the war in Yemen has been portrayed as a struggle over cities, militias, and ceasefires. That framing misses the most consequential dimension of the...
For years, Arab and Middle Eastern politics rested on the comfortable assumption that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were locked into a permanent...
For much of the past decade, Yemen was treated as a cautionary tale—evidence, so the argument went, that airpower could not impose order on a...
