M1 Abrams

November 8, 2024 | John Hardie |

What Ukraine’s Kursk gamble has — and has not — achieved

Ukraine took a gamble with its offensive in Kursk Oblast. Three months in, the operation has yet to pay off in the way Kyiv hoped. It did boost Ukrainian morale and disrupt the gloomy narrative surrounding...

May 24, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Can the Middle East halt the rise of Iran before it’s too late?

Iran has recently reconciled with Saudi Arabia, with China’s backing, and it has been seeking to open a new page of ties with Egypt.

February 1, 2023 | David Adesnik, John Hardie

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: February

FDD’s experts and scholars assess the administration’s foreign policies and offer trendlines for the areas they watch.

November 2, 2022 | Ryan Brobst, Bradley Bowman

How to get Kyiv the Tanks and Armored Vehicles It Needs

“We’re fighting the war out of our pickup trucks,” stated a Ukrainian soldier when reflecting on Ukraine’s slowing counteroffensive in Luhansk region. While Ukraine has a large inventory of tanks...

March 3, 2020 | Bradley Bowman |

Senators Call for U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group

Two prominent members of the Senate Armed Services Committee are leading a bipartisan effort to establish a U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group (OTWG) that would coordinate and catalyze combined...

October 17, 2019 | Bradley Bowman, Andrew Gabel

U.S. Army Receives First Delivery of Israeli-Made Active Protection System

According to an industry announcement last week, the U.S. Army has received its first delivery of the Israeli-made Trophy Active Protection System (APS), which the Army plans to install on many of its M1...

December 14, 2015 |

Freed Prisoner’s Plight Underscores Egypt’s Security Failings

Egypt and Israel completed a prisoner swap on Thursday that included the release of an Israeli Be...

January 5, 2015 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Islamic State Assaults Iraqi Army Base in Anbar

Co-authored by Caleb Weiss The Islamic State claimed to have breached the perimeter of Camp Habbaniyah in Anbar province, via photographs released o...

February 21, 2011 |

The Egyptian Army and Obama

An unrelentingly severe critic of the fallen Tunisian dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, my longtime Tunisian taxi driver Moussa, who has lived in Brussels for 20 years, sounded an optimistic note...

February 2, 2011 |

Mubarak v. the Brotherhood

 It is simply delirious to suggest that we can work with the Muslim Brotherhood, that the Brotherhood has renounced violence, or that a Brotherhood-led government will ultimately be better f...

December 21, 2005 |

Crossing the Delaware, the Tigris, and the Euphrates

By: Joseph Morisson Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. On the night of December 25, 1776, with the winter wind whipsawing the water, with waves ripping across the bows of their l...