Institute for the Study of War

Countering Iran’s Covert Chemical Weapons Program

Greenland’s Worth a Fight and Russia’s Trying to Start One

The “quickest way for Russia to penetrate our naval defenses is steaming from the Arctic to the North Atlantic.” The Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) Gap is the last place allied forces “have...

Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion

Obama and Biden’s failed Russia policies

The last thing Trump should do is adopt them

Iran’s Nuclear Disarmament

The Only Deal That Protects U.S. and Allied Security

For Russia, a Year of Setbacks at the OPCW

Yet Member States Still Have Not Imposed Consequences for Moscow’s Chemical Weapons Use

Iran and Belarus Sign Defense Cooperation Agreements  

The Iranian and Belarussian defense ministers met in Tehran on July 31 to sign a pair of defense cooperation agreements. While details about the accords are scarce, Minsk may be looking to Tehran for...

Possible Futures for Russia’s CEEW Playbook

Missing the Mark

Reassessing U.S. Military Aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces

Collusion or Collision?

Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin

Russia-Iran cooperation poses challenges for US cyber strategy, global norms

Russia and Iran inked an agreement last month on information security, a term that in Russian strategic doctrine encompasses not only cyber but information and communications technology (ICT) more broadly....

America’s Small but Effective Presence in Syria

The Trump plan for Afghanistan

The U.S. presence provides a better return on investment than most people realize

Burning Bridge: The Iranian Land Corridor to the Mediterranean

Profiles of Iranian Repression

Architects of Human Rights Abuse in the Islamic Republic

Pakistan’s ISI Supports Taliban, al Qaeda in Nuristan, Says Afghan Parliament

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate continues to support the Taliban and al Qaeda in the northeastern province of Nuristan, according to the Afghan parliament's Security...