When the United States and Israel started bombarding Iran in late February, U.S. President Donald Trump and his advisers likely believed that they could debilitate the regime and the situation would ...

The war against Iran does not have this. A common risk in war is goal displacement, when the tactical requirements of complex combat operations achieve immediate military objectives without serving ...

President Donald Trump’s decision late last year to start seizing Venezuelan oil tankers throughout the high seas marks a significant shift in American economic statecraft. For more than two decades, ...

They counter accusations that his global approach is impetuous and reckless with professions of “flexible realism”––a nod to an intellectual tradition often traced back to Greek historian Thucydides, ...

Even “in the early months of 1914 the international sky seemed clearer than it had been,” he later wrote in his memoirs. World War I, of course, broke out just months later, and went on to kill 40 ...

But it is clear that after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed, Trump hoped to deal with a transactional authoritarian figure. He called “what we did in Venezuela”—forcing the replacement of one ...

Since 2020, Russia has been expanding its presence in the Sahel region, seizing the initiative from Paris and Washington and enhancing its standing across sub-Saharan Africa. Recognizing that mounting ...

Southeast Asia should be benefiting from China’s rise. Beijing has made the region’s growth a priority: Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s Maritime Silk Road—the nautical pillar of the Belt and Road ...

At the outset of Operation Epic Fury, U.S. authorities went on a nationwide high alert against acts of terrorism carried out by Iran and its proxies—with good reason. Days after U.S. and Israeli ...

But the Iran war shares a deeper strategic reality with these predecessors. Washington is once again fighting a weaker regional power without having clear objectives, a defined theory of victory, and ...

Deng, citing Das Kapital by Karl Marx, began to sound the alarm about the greedy capitalists extracting surpluses from the Chinese proletariat. To him, large private businesses were inherently ...

After years of condemnations, sanctions, and small-scale attacks, in late February, the United States and Israel finally launched a large-scale war on Iran. In the time since, U.S. and Israeli forces ...