From Pariah to Partner? Inside Syria’s Washington Comeback Bid
Syria’s transitional President Ahmed al-Shara’a and Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani travelled to Washington and New York for a week of key meetings in the third...
David Petraeus
Deterring Iran’s Dash to the Bomb
Monographs
Facing failure in Lebanon
Why the U.S. should stop subsidizing Tehran’s proxy
Op-eds
Building on Biden’s Israel Commitments Before It’s Too Late
During President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel last week, he and Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a landmark declaration that contains several important U.S. commitments, including on preventing Iran from...
Op-eds
Iran nuclear talks are restarting, but they’re pointless: Biden needs a bipartisan strategy
President Joe Biden’s Iran policy is failing, and the indirect negotiations restarting in Vienna Nov. 29 won’t yield a win. Biden assumed that goodwill gestures and proactive concessions would bring...
Op-eds
Twenty 9/11 anniversaries
The sleeping giant nods off again
Op-eds
Choosing defeat in Afghanistan
America’s many enemies will be encouraged and emboldened
Op-eds
The Retrenchment Syndrome
A Response to “Come Home, America?”
The 9/11 anniversary and the 9/11 wars
Containing and disrupting jihadists is a mission worth accomplishing
Op-eds
In Afghanistan, no deal is better than a bad deal
To trust the Taliban would be naive and foolish.
Op-eds
The new Persian empire
Eleven years ago, Henry Kissinger famously said that Iran...
Op-eds
Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy Could Actually Work
While I support President Donald Trump’s de...
Op-eds
Afghanistan and the war against the West
The conflict in Afghanistan is often referred to as “the longest war in American history.” From that, you mi...
Op-eds
Trump Administration Still Doesn’t Have an Iran Policy
The Trump administration, for once in harmony with Congress, is going to slap more sanctions on Iran. They stress this has nothing to do with the nuclear deal, but is rather in response to Tehran...
Op-eds
Reincarnation
There’s a fascinating story in the weekend&...
Op-eds
Top general: 50,000-troop coalition needed in order to crush ISIS
It will take a coalition of 50,000 troops on the ground to defeat the Islamic State, according to the former army chief of staff who spent more than four years serving in Iraq and who is credited...
Op-eds
Memo to Presidential Campaign Advisers
This memorandum is addressed to the brave souls advising presidential candidates. As you know, the recent terrorist attacks in France – and in Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Lebanon, Turke...
Op-eds
The Long War Continues
In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...
Op-eds
Iran Shipping Weapons Across Middle East
Reports surfaced last Friday about the arrival o...
Policy Briefs
The Dubious Deal of the Century
Remember when President Obama said that to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapons capability, he would keep all options “on the table”? How long has it...