January 15, 2020
…But which is the shorter horn? Leaving will indeed be costly in the short term, but long-term remains the only option for increasing U.S. national security. If the U.S. leaves…
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May 29, 2020
…companies would have 60 days to wind down activities related to modifying the unfinished reactor at Arak and transferring fuel to the Tehran Research Reactor, two projects that are required…
March 9, 2021
…Haitians were hopeful that the Biden administration would change course before February 7, the day that Moïse’s term in office ended, according to Haiti’s judicial oversight body, the bar federation,…
August 18, 2020
…research. By then, the U.S. had already fallen behind China in just such scientific and technological research. A study by Nanjing University’s Qingnan Xie and Harvard University’s Richard Freeman noted that between…
April 15, 2020
…already led to a rise in hate crimes and discrimination. Biden also has unique vulnerabilities that will hamstring this argument. The former Vice President will be constantly required to answer…
April 5, 2021
…be the low hanging fruit for these unsavory actors. To be effective, a salvation strategy should have short-term and long-term components. In the short-term, the EU+4 group should establish a…
November 9, 2020
…would tend to undermine what they have attempted to accomplish. The other factor is that the outgoing president, whatever his disappointment, has for the final two months of his term…
March 22, 2020
…fought civil liberties for short term results, but at what costs? Authoritarian source or solution? The uncompromising authoritarian approach adopted by the People’s Republic was swiftly adopted by other authoritarian…
May 28, 2020
…were already taking on ever-larger roles. Nevertheless, there were ample “boots-on-the-ground” and relatively high casualties in conventional units like mine. Times have changed. Full-scale invasions and long-term occupations, along with…
March 5, 2020
…scope of its ambitions. But sustaining deterrence will prove far more illusory than the conventional wisdom assumes. China will always search for, and often find, a way to counter and…
March 14, 2021
…essence. The term chosen to describe the process is recalibrate. In practical terms, recalibration means that the U.S. government is sanctioning a few dozen Saudi functionaries for their involvement in the Khashoggi assassination, while…
October 13, 2020
…at the end, negotiation is required to terminate the conflict on terms favorable to us and avoid the now highly questionable idea that force always produces unconditional surrender of our…
January 2, 2020
…the political waters in the United States, lest the administration in power do something foolish for electoral gain. The term of art is “October Surprise,” based on the idea that…
August 25, 2020
…to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Below is a graph of the term’s usage across the archives: The first spike of cold war mentions corresponds to the beginning of…
March 31, 2021
…Liberation Organization are taking required steps to terminate payments for Palestinians arrested or killed by Israel for acts of terror (nicknamed “pay-to-slay” by TFA advocates), the U.S. cannot provide Economic…
November 22, 2020
…have never been stationed in northwest Syria. Under no circumstances was a long-term U.S. ground presence required. If Washington can perform this feat in the jihadist wasteland that is Idlib,…
March 23, 2020
…from the Trump-Pence campaign. Team Trump has shifted into full-on blame-China-first mode. In a span of two weeks, we’ve gone from Trump using the term “coronavirus” to Mike Pompeo test-marketing…
March 16, 2020
…required for testing its turbines, which is a scheduled step in bringing the GERD online. This initial filling will require a total of 18.4bcm of water over the course of…
March 6, 2020
…far done, it will set a terrible precedent for the society-wide cooperation, including shared sacrifice, required to cope with the existential threat of climate change. External conflict risks There is…
January 18, 2020
…is thinking short-term on Iran with no clear long-term objectives in the Middle East. It is not a surprise that the Iranian regime did not retaliate forcefully. Such restraint was…
January 19, 2020
…about the killing of Suleimani, and stands in particular contrast to commentary from Iran hawks. Sanders was assessing the consequences of the assassination not just in a regional and near-term…