Nixon Was Right
After all these years, the Communist Party is still handcuffed to its American rival, and it is unable to break free.
Aaron Sarin
· 10 min read
US Foreign Policy
A collection of 36 posts
The Wrong Man
In Iran, Donald Trump is showing us what a populist war looks like.
Michael J. Totten
· 11 min read
Foreign Power, Local Politics
Where local collaboration is absent, foreign intervention imposes enormous costs or simply stalls. Where it exists, intervention can succeed with surprising velocity.
Pablo Policzer
· 10 min read
Trump, Tehran, and the China Calculus
The CCP will certainly take advantage should Iran turn into a major distraction for the US.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
A Paradoxical War
The American debate about the campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Jeffrey Herf
· 19 min read
A New World Order in the Making
An interview with Dr Shmuel Bar.
Hannah Gal, Shmuel Bar
· 13 min read
A Strike Against Beijing
Operation Epic Fury is not just about Iran.
Aaron Sarin
· 7 min read
An Hour of Reckoning
Iran has never been weaker and America has never been more poorly led.
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
After Trump’s Iran Decision
The real dilemma is not between war and negotiation. It is between episodic action and sustained architecture.
Allen Zeesman
· 6 min read
“No Friends but the Mountains”
America and the West have once again betrayed their Kurdish allies. Al-Sharaa’s assault on the Kurds of northern Syria, with Turkish backing, is just the latest chapter in the Kurds’ long struggle for self-rule.
Benny Morris
· 10 min read
NATO Is an Alliance, Not a Protection Racket
Even if unsuccessful, Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign to acquire Greenland threatens to undermine America’s reputation as a champion of western security, freedom, and co-operation.
Brian Stewart
· 10 min read
Getting to Denmark
Greenland and the erosion of deep literacy.
Adam Garfinkle
· 13 min read
Risky, Costly, and Extremely Cold
Any invasion of Greenland would be a logistical nightmare with no economic upside.
Sean Welsh
· 9 min read
Atlas No More
It is difficult to overstate just how reactionary Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy is.
Brian Stewart
· 24 min read
Ignorance and Indignation
Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.
Brian Stewart
· 16 min read