A grand strategy for a turbulent world – Walter Russell Mead The twenty-first century has seen the return to prominence of U.S. foreign policy traditions once largely considered relics of an outmoded past. Jacksonian...
The World Still Needs America—and America Still Needs the World In times of uncertainty, people reach for historical analogies. After 9/11, George W. Bush administration officials invoked Pearl Harbor as a standard comparison in...
The Mounting Pressure to Fight Hezbollah in Lebanon—and Why That Is So Dangerous – By Amos Harel More than nine months into its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel now appears closer than...
The decades-long conflict between Iran and Israel crossed a new threshold on April 13 when Iran, for the first time, launched a direct attack against Israel involving over 300 missiles and drones. This unprecedented attack...
U.S. Diplomacy Remains the Key to Regional Stability The volley of attacks and counterattacks between Iran and Israel in the first two weeks of April drastically changed the strategic landscape in the Middle East....
During COVID-19 a preacher lured thousands of people into a remote forest. Then he told them to stop eating It started with one family. Then another arrived, then another. Soon there were enough of...
The Russian Autocrat’s Answer to the Problem of Succession – By Michael Kimmage and Maria Lipman In 2012, Vladimir Putin, after four years as prime minister, once again became Russia’s president. Many Russians resented his...
Total Victory Is Not Possible—but Demilitarizing Hamas and Stabilizing Gaza Still Are – By Dennis Ross In February, Israeli military intelligence reportedly informed the country’s leaders that Hamas will survive as a terrorist group after...
The New Threat Behind an Old Idea – By Aaron Bateman When Mike Turner, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, issued a cryptic warning last week about the “serious national security threat” represented by...
Russian aggression and American wavering reveal just how ill-equipped the continent is Russia is becoming more dangerous, America is less reliable and Europe remains unprepared. The problem is simply put, but the scale of its...
