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America Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Weapons
1+ hour ago (162+ words) ERIN D. DUMBACHER is Stanton Nuclear Security Senior Fellow and Director of the Defense and National Security Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Expanding the Stockpile Could Weaken Deterrence And the Coming Crisis in Strategic Stability America’s Nuclear Warning Systems…...
What Was the War on Terror?
1+ week, 1+ day ago (237+ words) PHILIP H. GORDON is the Sydney Stein, Jr., Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He served as National Security Adviser to the Vice President in the Biden administration and as White House Coordinator for the Middle East in the Obama administration. He…...
The End of the American Middle East
1+ week, 1+ day ago (127+ words) Iran and the Last Gasp of a Failed Order MARC LYNCH is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and the author of America’s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region. Wars of Sound and Fury…...
How Alliances Survive
1+ week, 1+ day ago (380+ words) The Case Against Pessimism and the Path to a New Allied Order It is true that as French President Emmanuel Macron and other allied leaders have argued, “there is no going back.” That does not, however, mean the end of…...
The Long Shadow of the Iran Shock
1+ week, 5+ day ago (316+ words) JASON BORDOFF is Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy and Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. During the Obama administration, he served as Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change…...
Why We Should Fight
2+ week, 6+ day ago (215+ words) And Where Trump Went Wrong Warfare, of course, is complicated and contingent, and it is impossible to be certain that things would have gone much better if the president had followed the precepts of the Powell Doctrine. What is not…...
America Must Let Go of the Middle East
2+ week, 6+ day ago (320+ words) MICHAEL FUCHS is a Director at the Open Society Foundations. From 2021 to 2022, he was Special Assistant to President Joe Biden and Deputy Chief of Staff to Vice President Kamala Harris. During the Obama administration, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of…...
The New Forever Wars
3+ week, 1+ day ago (224+ words) DAFNA H. RAND is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and as Director of Foreign Assistance at the U.S. Department of State. How America Gets Stuck in…...
The New Old Middle East
3+ week, 5+ day ago (186+ words) Wars of Sound and Fury F. Gregory Gause III F. GREGORY GAUSE III is Professor Emeritus at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Institute. Ending the War…...
Iran and the New Rules of Global Power
4+ week, 1+ day ago (631+ words) ROBERT A. PAPE is Professor of Political Science and Director of the University of Chicago Project on Security and Threats. He is the author of Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War. On the night of January 17, 1991, television viewers…...