Wikistrat surveyed eight leading Gulf security experts on how Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will respond to the US-Iran deal taking shape. The panel converged on Hormuz as the defining red line and on a three-year regional arms race if missile limits are excluded, and split sharply on whether Riyadh goes nuclear.

The Iran war hasn't raised the risk of a Chinese move on Taiwan. What Beijing is learning from the campaign is the bigger concern. Wikistratsurveyed 10 leading PLA and China experts on Taiwan risk, military lessons, and Beijing's next moves.

One month into Operation Epic Fury, eleven senior Iran specialists assess the conflict's trajectory. The regime is holding, domestic unrest has vanished as a factor, and the options that might break the stalemate, from Kharg Island to a full ground invasion, carry risks experts assess as greater than the stalemate itself.