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How massive US footprint in the Gulf became a bullseye overnight
Middle East

How massive US footprint in the Gulf became a bullseye overnight

The Iran war will certainly spur conversation over whether partners need or want these huge bases anymore

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Middle East

Is UAE instigating a US seizure of long disputed Gulf islands?

The Emirates are determined to regain control of Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunbs, which sit near the Strait of Hormuz

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Military Industrial Complex

Waging war across three domains

This week in The Bunker: SECDEF Pete Hegseth steps up his carpet-bombing of the press and more

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Trump's April Fools' Address to the nation

Expectations reached a fever pitch Wednesday, but he neither called for an end to the war nor announced a ground invasion. Bottom line: We're not finished.

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QiOSK

Bob Kagan leads neocons changing their spots over Trump's war

These guys cut their teeth on dogmatic support for US primacy and foreign intervention to pursue regime change goals. What happened?

Mojtaba Khamenei
Middle East

'Regime change' might be biggest failure in Operation Epic Fury

The new generation that has moved into place in the wake of US-Israeli assassinations is more hardline than the first