Book Chapter — Throwing Cold Water on the New Cold War
How the World’s Democracies Can Win
George F. Kennan
America cannot ignore the Middle East
Despite calls to refocus American grand strategy towards Europe and Asia, events in Israel show that the United States cannot abandon its commitments in the Middle East.
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AUKUS Special Operations Forces in Strategic Competition, Integrated Deterrence, and Campaigning: Resistance to Malign Activities
On September 15, 2021, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States formed AUKUS(Open Link in new window), which is described as a trilateral security partnership designed to make it easier to...
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Beijing’s American Hustle
How Chinese Grand Strategy Exploits U.S. Power
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Biden Revives the Truman Doctrine
His call to wage a global war for freedom echoes the dawn of the Cold War.
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How to Conduct the Biden Administration’s Korea Policy Review
The way ahead is deterrence, defense, denuclearization, human rights upfront, and solving the “Korea question” (e.g., unification) with the understanding that denuclearization of the north will only happen when we resolve that “Korea question.”
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Xi Jinping’s Rise Is No Historical Accident
How 'The Longer Telegram' misunderstands the Chinese Communist Party's quest for power.
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Cold War II has begun
It’s with China, and to win it will require bipartisan consensus
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Regime change in Iran shouldn’t be a taboo
Regime change in Iran is one of the biggest taboos in U.S. foreign policy. Bring it up and you will be scorned as a warmonger, a fomenter of chaos. Yet we have encouraged and welcomed the collapse of dictatorships...
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How Far Is Trump Willing to Go to Change Iran’s Behavior?
"Surrender Dorothy.” That’s the phrase from The Wizard of Oz that I couldn’t quite get out of my head as I read through Secretary of State Mike Pompe...
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The Nuclear Deal Makes America Complicit in Iranian Crimes
The fundamental question when discussing a nuclear deal with Tehran is this: Are you prepared to fight over it? If not, then any deal is a good deal. This willingness to go to the mat also affect...
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Defending the civilized world
In an inaugural address that was more purposeful than poetic, President Trump last Friday vowed to “unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate from...
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How Biden Gets it Wrong (Again) in Newsweek
When Barack Obama selected Joe Biden to be his running mate in 2008, the media lauded the decision as the perfect choice to beef up a ticket in need of foreign policy credentials. Announcing his...
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The Thirty-Year War
Iran policy goes from failure to failure.
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Boxing Iran?
President Obama’s policy of “engagement” with Iran can be viewed as an experiment. There was at least a chance that it was only President Bush — that swaggering, unilatera...
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Defeating Islamists at the Ballot
A dilemma for Washington is that whenever the United States pushes for elections in the Middle East and Muslim countries, Islamist parties often per-form well—better than liberal, nationali...
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Where to Stand and Fight
Earlier this week, in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Bush threatened Iran with "isolation" if it continues plowing forward in its nuclear program. Thi...