Pentagon is cautious as Riyadh requests additional U.S. forces.
detailsIndia is wedged between two nuclear-armed allies that routinely defy fundamental international rules and norms. Until China and Pakistan stop trying to undermine...
detailsA regular survey of experts on matters relating to Middle Eastern and North African politics and security.
detailsLike the twentieth-century Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the new rivalry between China and the West is a contest between fundamentally incompatible political systems.
detailsMany partisans accused President George W. Bush of lying and pressuring the intelligence community to produce intelligence to justify a war that Bush had already chosen
detailsSaudi Arabia has used a variety of means to neutralize domestic opposition to the war in Yemen.
detailsIranian officials now appear to be negotiating and rather than using back-channels, they are doing it in plain sight.
detailsIt is easy to get caught up in escalating strategic competition and conflict on Earth. But, 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission reached the Moon
detailsTo understand where we are and where we are going, we must first understand where we have been. Trump became president with a set of deeply rooted visceral instincts about the world—hostility to alliances, skepticism of free trade, and support for authori
detailsIt appears that the United States launched cyberattacks on Iran in response to that nations shooting down of an American drone aircraft.
detailsDespite spending billions of dollars on hardware, our regional partners do not have the capabilities we need.
detailsUnderstanding deterrence in cyberspace is often difficult, because our minds remain captured by an image of deterrence shaped by the Cold War
detailsWashington should use its military soft-power to help Iranians and further drive a wedge between Iranians and the IRGC as well as isolate the IRGC ideologues within the system.
detailsThere is considerable turmoil and confusion in the Gulf region. Several oil tankers have been damaged and the prime suspect according to some U.S. pundits is sabotage by Iran...
detailsFor the first time this century, Indian fighter jets struck deep inside Pakistani territory, targeting camps operated by notorious terrorists.
detailsThe British prime minister must choose between politics and principle when it comes to pulling her country out of the European Union. Tony Blair’s experience offers a lesson.
detailsA new joint resolution introduced in the Senate calls on the executive branch to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan within one year...
detailsPakistan fears two things more than war with India: pressure from Washington and indifference from Beijing...
detailsThe success of this week’s G-20 meeting is threatened by the increasing tensions between the Ukraine and Russia.
detailsRussia will transfer two to four S 300 air defense missile systems to Syria within the next two weeks
detailsIsrael has fully joined the battle in Syria—but it’s not clear it can achieve any of its goals there.
detailsWhat happened and how will these incidents impact the ongoing fighting in Syria?
detailsTrump wanted to have the Syrian president assassinated last year but his defense secretary ignored the request
detailsClausewitz famously observed that war has an enduring nature and a changing character that evolves over time as technology, society, economics, and politics shift. This observation also applies to strategic leadership: it too has an enduring nature and a
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