Afghanistan has lessons for the Gulf
Gulf states are likely to discover that they are stuck with a less committed United States. That reality will push them toward greater self-reliance.
Gulf states are likely to discover that they are stuck with a less committed United States. That reality will push them toward greater self-reliance.
While he warned about the military industrial complex, he was less restrained when it came to covert interventions, some which reverberate today.
The entire American foreign-policy establishment has succumbed to a monumentally self-destructive ideological post-Cold War fever.
Its new national security strategy may be calculated to appeal to voters, but the West has clearly helped to push Putin’s buttons, too.
Sanctions like those imposed on Cuba fail to achieve their stated policy objectives and create misery for millions of innocent people.
Will the departure of some 3,000 American troops from Afghanistan be a harbinger of a more fundamental realignment of U.S. Middle East security policy?
If Biden clings to a calcified and militarized conception of national security — as he appears intent on doing — he will put his entire presidency at risk.
Reporting on potential membership of the SCO further counters the Western narrative that Iran is internationally isolated.
In his new book, the long time US foreign policy critic says some radical approaches are in order, ‘After the Apocalypse.’
After centuries of domination by foreigners, the Middle East is now being reshaped primarily by interactions between countries within it.
A new book tries, but largely fails, to bridge the gap between two camps of US grand strategy.
To hold its own with China, the United States must renew its competitive capacity and build a demonstrably better governed society.
One author of the Eurasia Group Foundation’s latest survey said its findings line up ‘tidily’ with a pro-restraint worldview.
If Biden wants to be “Dr. Build Back Better,” he should assume the additional role of “Dr. Curb the War Habit.”
Media invoke the language of human rights and humanitarianism to convince those to the left of center to accept, if not support, U.S. actions abroad.
Chinese and American leaders are now playing a game of chicken that couldn’t be more dangerous for both countries and the planet.
The Afghan War made a pivotal and particularly mournful contribution, definitively exposing as delusionary claims of U.S. military supremacy.
The administration’s approach of “multilateral restoration” has many virtues compared to four years of MAGA. But it has considerable shortcomings as well.
Amid Washington chatter about the future of U.S.-Saudi relations, the kingdom has launched an unprecedented public diplomacy campaign.
The Biden administration seems to think that China is a problem like Covid-19 that can be managed simply by being the un-Trump.
Going all in on a military, economic, and cultural competition with China — and forging a wafer-thin bipartisan consensus to do so — is the height of folly.