Since taking office in March, Chilean President José Antonio Kast has had one major victory, the narrow passage of a ...
On July 12, at the NATO summit in Washington, Turkey threatened to take steps to exclude Israel from all cooperation with NATO. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that “until comprehensive, ...
Friction is the difference between war on paper and war as it actually is.”Carl von Clausewitz, On War From the start of his ...
The American president’s reluctance to confront Russia may reflect a larger geopolitical calculation. But his contempt for European leadership could be making him indifferent to the very conflict that ...
It is ambitious at this point given the uncertainties of the raging Iran War to inventory likely lessons and outcomes on the region’s future. But it is also necessary, as analysis of alternative ...
On June 29, 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in al-Sham (ISIS), was recorded on video speaking at the al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq. (“Al-Sham” is the traditional Arabic ...
Twice in the last fifty years, Israel sustained surprise attacks on a major scale. In the first instance, in October 1973, the IDF failed in fulfilling its mission of defending Israel’s frontiers, but ...
Hamas’ sudden attack on the kibbutzim and the towns neighboring the Gaza Strip caught the IDF and the country by total surprise. During the first 24 hours, beginning at 6:30 in the morning of October ...
On the eve of President Joe Biden’s entry to the White House, several think tanks in Washington published some detailed papers about his policy options in the Middle East. Their authors were media ...
As we approach the two-year anniversary of a phone call that changed the Middle East, it is important to understand the impact and potential of the Abraham Accords. August 2020 was a dark time, as ...