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Could a Blobby enclave be sowing chaos at DoD?

The US Army is about to get smaller, especially in Europe

Trump tasks first time envoy with the most complex Africa conflict

Mr. Trump, you would've been lucky to have Dan Davis on your team

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Caldwell, 2 others sacked at DoD fight back in fiery joint statement

Ukraine and Europe can't afford to refuse Trump's peace plan

'It's 2025 not 1939!' EU threats over Russia Victory Day draw backlash

No Joke: US considering nuclear power for Saudi in grand bargain

The US Army is about to get smaller, especially in Europe

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Asia-Pacific

US-China trade war: Escalate to de-escalate to escalate?

Even if Trump lowers tariff heat he says he wants to force the rest of the world to choose one team or the other

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Middle East

Was Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood ban a bid to please Israel, Saudi?

Pope Francis
Global Crises

Pope Francis was often mocked for railing against current wars

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Middle East

Deterrence or creep? US forces quietly surge back to Middle East

Stars are aligned for Trump's troop withdrawal from Syria
Middle East

Stars are aligned for Trump's troop withdrawal from Syria

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Europe

Ukraine and Europe can't afford to refuse Trump's peace plan

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

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QiOSK

Diplomacy Watch: The White House now wielding ultimatums

Both Zelenskyy and Putin were on the receiving end of Trump’s ire this week

Huckabee justifies food blockade to people he once said don’t exist

Can Netanyahu bury ‘Qatargate’ under Gaza's rubble?

Major US-Philippine military drills kick off amid tensions with China

Former Israeli official leading Israel, Iran desk at the White House

Asia-Pacific

Donald Trump Xi Jinping

US-China trade war: Escalate to de-escalate to escalate?

Afghanistan

Left behind, Afghanistan is now an environmental hellhole

Vietnam tariffs trade

Vietnam's fortunes actually take a dramatic turn, and not for worst

Middle east

King Abdullah Jordan

Was Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood ban a bid to please Israel, Saudi?

King Abdullah wielded the nuclear option this week after 16 members were arrested in an alleged terror plot

Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

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Three huge things DOGE can cut at the Pentagon now

Washington Politics

hive mind

Debate: Federal funding fuels failing foreign policy hive mind

soft power

Debate: Slashing studies, research aid will doom US foreign policy

Bukele Trump Garcia

In Garcia, SCOTUS risks handing Trump a ‘loaded weapon’

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?

JFK wanted to splinter CIA ‘into a thousand pieces.’ Why didn't he?

Africa

Somalia

Why the US can't beat al-Shabaab in Somalia

Bad timing for an African trade war

Saudi Arabia chooses sides in Sudan's civil war

Trump tasks first time envoy with the most complex Africa conflict

Latin America

Pope Francis Fidel Castro

Pope Francis worked miracles for US-Cuba, but not the biggest one

Forecast in the Americas: Uncertainty with a chance of Trump

How Brazil will dance with Trump's America

Trump's Latin American sticks could end up stuck in his spokes

Europe

Donald Trump

Ukraine and Europe can't afford to refuse Trump's peace plan

Manifrost destiny? Trump losing sight of real opportunity in Arctic

'It's 2025 not 1939!' EU threats over Russia Victory Day draw backlash

European rearmament: Shuffling fake money around a monopoly board?

north america

Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on

Trump should take the victory in Canada and move on

What awaits Marco Rubio in the Caribbean

Haiti's crisis deepens as foreign troops struggle to curb violence

Trumponomics: Global South is girding for tariffs — or not

Military Industrial Complex

Pentagon

Software is eating the DoD: Brought to you by the Atlantic Council

Full court press by Silicon Valley and friends for the military to — surprise — eradicate funding restrictions for new tech

Media

US Army National Guard

Veterans: Hurry up and pitch! New writing project begins now

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth

Alexander Vindman's new book is a folly: of history, and the truth

Donald Trump Miriam Adelson

The Israeli-American Trump mega-donor behind speech crackdowns

Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria, stuck somewhere in 1950 or 1995, is wrong again

Global Crises

Pope Francis

Pope Francis was often mocked for railing against current wars

From Gaza to Ukraine, the Pontiff was consistent in his pursuit of peace, which drew fire from certain sectors