The 30th edition of our flagship monthly publication, the Horn Review Magazine, explores the current dynamics defining the Horn’s political and security landscape. This edition traces how Eritrea’s buffer-zone strategy has turned the corridor from the Red Sea through eastern Sudan into Tigray into a single integrated theatre of instability. Ambassador Dina Mufti argues that the Ethiopia-Eritrea border has effectively dissolved, with Asmara operating as the senior partner in an alliance with TPLF hardliners and Fano elements. Ambassador General Bacha Debele makes the legal and military case that Eritrea’s incursion into Zalambesa has exhausted the logic of Ethiopian restraint. A sober accounting of what renewed war would mean for Eritrea finds Ethiopia holding the decisive structural advantage, and the greater risk lying in state collapse rather than confrontation itself. And the enduring history of chokepoint leverage, from the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab el-Mandeb, exposes just how exposed landlocked Ethiopia remains to a Red Sea in crisis.

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