The Periphery
The Periphery, DefenseHubThe Periphery will seek to analyze geopolitical situations that, from the mainstream point of view, are on the edges, just outside the normal field of view.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 70 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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The Sixth Lion of Panjshir
Beginning on April 19th, 1984, the Soviet 40th Army began its latest large-scale operation in the strategic Panjshir Valley. Around 20,000 regular troops, tanks, artillery, and helicopter gunships moved in. Soviet military leadership even g...
Hunter Becomes the Hunted
On the afternoon of September 25th, 1986, a small contingent of mujahideen trekked up a hill not far from the Afghan city of Jalalabad in the far east of the country. Said hill was close to the local Soviet airfield. The contingent separate...
The Transnistrian War
On the morning of June 19th, 1992, Russian forces belonging to the 14th Army, with heavy armor as backup, in addition to Transnistrian separatist militia units, attacked the city of Bender (Tighina). The fighting focused on the Moldovan pol...
Three Bombs, Three Different Enemies
From left: China’s first nuclear test, Project 596, at Lop Nur (October 16, 1964); the crater from India’s ‘Smiling Buddha’ test at Pokhran (May 18, 1974); and Pakistan’s Chagai-I test in the Ras Koh Range (May 28, 1998.
At about 1 am loca...
“There Is No Peaceful Bomb”
On January 28th, 1987, infamous Pakistani nuclear scientist A. Q. Khan sat down for an interview with prominent Indian journalist Kuldip Nayar. Nayar had been angling to interview Khan for some time, and finally he had been able to book him...
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Delves into the geopolitical stories that sit just outside the mainstream's view, bringing the obscure but rarely inconsequential to the forefront. Each piece demystifies a pressure point, past or present.
I’m R. Planche, Editor of DefenseHub. I’m an engineer and technology leader with postgraduate training in geopolitics, applying technical rigor and open‑source discipline to the study of military technology and military history.
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