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Michael Jensen
Latin America

Former Air Force commando takes top LatAm job at NSC

This doesn’t reassure those who think Trump's Western Hemisphere policy may be too militarized

Eisenhower and Nasser
Middle East

If Israel goes it alone is it risking another 'Suez'?

Israel doesn't typically wage foreign wars without direct US assistance. One time it did, against Eisenhower's wishes in 1956, and it paid a price.

US Navy Taiwan Strait
Military Industrial Complex

Despite setbacks, trends still point to US foreign policy restraint

Even with the greenlight for Israel's attacks, we won't be able to afford new costly entanglements — or want them

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Middle East

Iraq on razor's edge between Iran and US interests in new war

Caught in the middle of Iran and pro-Israel Washington, plus a defiant militia network, Baghdad faces impossible choices

George Bush mission accomplished
Washington Politics

Déjà coup: Iran war activates regime change dead-enders

The interventionists want to resurrect America's favorite foreign policy failure

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Europe

How NATO military doctrine failed Ukraine on the battlefield

This will also doom the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ — in part because these forces were trained to wage the Cold War, and Russia has evolved