Red Line at Damietta: How Hybrid Energy Warfare Just Expanded

An unprecedented drone strike in northern Egypt signals that the Gulf’s energy war is no longer contained to the Red Sea.

Explosions in Damietta

Something is shifting in the dynamics of the energy geopolitics across the Persian Gulf and the Middle East.

In particular, it is through the ways energy is used as a source of leverage and strength in the region’s ongoing conflicts—which are tearing apart the regional energy security architecture and energy system—that a dangerous …