52+ min ago   (967+ words) Iran’s threat to target American warships with an enhanced ballistic missile appears to mark a new and potentially more dangerous phase of the Middle East conflict, six months in. Tehran says its solid-fuel Qassem Basir missile enables it to “take…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1734+ words) Israel is methodically emptying the West Bank countryside of hamlets and farms to spur Palestinians to either flee into exile or move into cities hemmed in by Israeli settlements ramshackle “outposts” and military bases. Western governments and the United Nations…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (751+ words) A new University of Massachusetts-Amherst opinion poll, conducted August 21-26, finds profound American disillusionment with President Donald Trump, with his Iran war, and with its economic fallout in their lives. Apparently, the Ellison family’s attempt to drum up support for Donald…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (865+ words) When Washington on August 19 unveiled its economic “D-Day” – the latest tightening of the financial siege and the blockade around Iran’s ports – it believed it was applying decisive leverage. But in Tehran the move was read as something else entirely: as…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (944+ words) President Donald Trump has entangled the United States in a war of choice with Iran that he cannot easily win or quit. The war was meant to be what Trump called “a little excursion” that would be over within a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1002+ words) I was born on July 20, 1944, in the midst of World War II. My father had just returned from Burma where he had been operations officer for the 1st Air Commandos in the China-India-Burma Theater. I, of course, remember nothing about that war…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (915+ words) Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point roadmap for Gaza in late July in which Hamas would hand its weapons to a committee of Palestinian technocrats, certified by an international verification body, and Israel would withdraw from the strip…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1007+ words) Israeli forces raided homes in the town of al-Rafid, in Syria’s Quneitra countryside on August 15, and the operation drew almost no attention beyond Syria itself. Such raids have become so ordinary along the old disengagement line that they no longer…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (851+ words) For decades, India-Israel defense relations were straightforward. Israel possessed military technologies, weapons systems and operational expertise that India wanted, while India offered one of the world’s largest defense and weaponry markets. That equation is now changing at warp speed. India…...

1+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (1019+ words) The US may be entering a period of significant nuclear reassessment as it confronts a growing mismatch between its predominantly strategic arsenal and adversaries increasingly prepared for limited nuclear use. This month, Breaking Defense reported that the US Department of…...