Geopolitical Maps illuminate Middle East scenarios

These maps by Laura Canali do a great job of shedding light on geopolitical issues often too complex for most people to comprehend without this kind of visual illumination and organization.
Source: Heartland, a Eurasian review of geopolitics, in association with La Repubblica's Limes, an Italian Geopolitical magazine.

Obama's Big Game shows the distribution of U.S. bases in the Middle East, alongside with the distribution of nuclear power, lines of friction, and the stability of the region's states.

How Israel can Strike Iran depicts a potential, hypothetical path of attack, if the former were to strike the latter and targeted uranium and water plants in order to disrupt nuclear programs.

Pakistan's Paranoia depicts the country's retreat strategy into Afghanistan, were an Indian invasion to occur.