As the war with Iran rages on and gets more costly by the day, rumblings about a potential cease-fire have emerged from Washington. After threatening to bomb Iran’s power plants if it did not reopen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

But these are the wrong measures for assessing Iran’s position in the war. The right measure is not even an assessment of whether Iran is absorbing punishment well—which it is. The question that will ...

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 ...

Throughout U.S. President Donald Trump’s most recent campaign and second term in office, he and his team have attempted to spin his foreign policy as pragmatic, disciplined, and strategic. They ...

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 ...

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 ...