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The Trump administration should abandon any plans to arm Iranian Kurdish forces before the first fighter crosses the Iraqi-Iranian border. Not refine it.
Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China ...
The Manhattan Project brought allied scientists to Los Alamos because winning required pooling allied scientific capacity.
What if the biggest variable in whether China attacks Taiwan is how many directions New Delhi is forced to look at once? When considering a Taiwan ...
On Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched major, ongoing strikes against Iran — including killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and many other ...
What changes when China’s leader finally states a reserve currency ambition explicitly? Xi Jinping has now done so, calling ...
The foundations of the Atlantic alliance are shifting in ways not seen since the early days of the Cold War. Washington is no ...
The Olympics have a long history of countries and participants using the games as a platform to build soft power, promote ...
Congress has unintentionally shifted the burden of preventing an unconstitutional war squarely onto the military. By failing to exercise its war powers, ...
In 2023, Jennifer Kavanaugh and Jordan Cohen wrote, “The True Military Assistance Tradeoff is Between Israel and Taiwan,” ...
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only ...