Suez Canal

Egypt’s Looming Crisis

Stability in the Middle East is vital to American interests. The region remains a crucial source of energy and is located at the crossroads of world commerce. It also acts...

How the 1956 Suez Crisis Nearly Kicked Off World War III

Here’s What You Need To Remember: For Britain, the Suez Canal was a symbol of imperial prestige, as well as a lifeline to its bases in the Middle East and...

In 1956 the World Almost Ended. The Culprit was The Suez Crisis

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Leaders such as Saddam Hussein and Muammar el-Qaddafi have left a bad taste in the mouth when it comes to Arab strongmen. And yet, in...

HMS Queen Elizabeth Transits the Suez Canal in a Historic Show of Naval Power

Earlier this week, the Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth sailed through the Suez Canal for the first time, crossing from the Mediterranean into the Red Sea as...

This Picture Could Have Been the Start of World War III

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin warned that the Soviet Union was ready to fire nuclear-armed ballistic missiles at Britain, France and Israel unless those nations withdrew....

The 1956 Suez Crisis Humiliated the Crumbling British Empire

Here’s What You Need to Know: In 1956, the sun had already set on the British and French imperiums, even if they couldn’t admit it to themselves. The war began with...

Congested Ports, Economic Problems and Challenged Supply Chains

The global economy’s uneven recovery is raising new challenges, including congested ports in the United States, challenged supply chains and slow deliveries to consumers and retailers. In late May 2021,...

How the 1956 Suez Crisis Changed the World—and Nearly Ended It

Here’s What You Need To Remember: For old-fashioned nineteenth-century imperialism, Suez was the last gasp. The war began with an imperialist invasion to seize the Suez Canal. It ended with...

There Is No Indo-Pacific Without Egypt and the Suez Canal

The world is slowly emerging from the Suez Canal saga, where the Ever Given vessel was stuck in the narrow southern lane of the Canal for six days, disrupting global...

What the Closing of the Suez Canal Says About U.S. Maritime Security

The Ever Given wasn’t the first ship to block the Suez Canal. A multi-ship pile-up in 2018 snarled maritime traffic there for two days. But the sheer size and bulk...

China Looks to the Arctic to Avoid Another Suez Slowdown

As the events in the Suez Canal over the past week have reminded us, the world’s great sea lanes—the arteries through which flows the lifeblood of the global economy—are defined...

Beyond Suez: How Yemen’s War Can Imperil Red Sea Shipping

The windstorm that sent the 200,000 ton Ever Given container ship into the banks of the Suez Canal cost global markets billions of dollars. Years of miscalculations in Yemen and...