What Ukraine Still Needs to Win
As Kyiv gears up for its spring counteroffensive, some U.S. officials are privately casting doubt on what Ukraine can achieve. To be sure, the Ukrainian military will face serious hurdles in...
S-300 missile system
Advance U.S. Interests by Giving Ukraine the Weapons It Needs Now
Memos
The ‘Yugoslavia Scenario’: How Russia Intends to Use an Anniversary in Its Ongoing Information War
The Kremlin has used NATO’s 1999 intervention to justify Russia’s continual assaults on Ukraine, and won’t miss the upcoming opportunity to exploit this further.
Op-eds
Iran Aids Russia’s Imperialist War Against Ukraine
Tehran has agreed to help Moscow produce hundreds or even thousands of Iranian drones in Russia, according to new intelligence reports cited by The Washington Post and CNN. This agreement could boost...
Op-eds
The Dangers of Iran’s Cyber Ambitions
Moscow Cozies Up With Hamas to Pressure Israel
A delegation from the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, led by Politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, made a multi-day visit to Moscow this month for meetings with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as...
Op-eds
Why Washington should provide ATACMS weapons to Ukraine
The Ukrainian military announced the beginning of a much-anticipated counteroffensive on Monday, aiming to retake territory in the country’s south. Western weapons, which have helped Ukraine strike...
Op-eds
Iran and Russia Strengthen Their Partnership
Russia launched an Iranian surveillance satellite into orbit on Tehran’s behalf on August 9. This action could potentially strengthen Iran’s ability to gather intelligence on sites in Israel and the wider Middle East. Meanwhile, a U.S. official told CNN that Russian personnel have started to train inside Iran on the use of drones. Tehran aims to sell hundreds of drones—including weapons-capable models—to Moscow for deployment in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Flash Briefs
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: May
Policy Tracker
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: April
Policy Tracker
Iran puts air defense assets on display
The Islamic Republic has concluded a massive air defense drill showcasing select surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), launchers, radars, and command-and-control equipment. While analysts and policymakers have...
Op-eds
The Curtain is Falling on Bibi’s Lebanese Belly-Dance
What lies beneath seven years of Israeli rhetoric about Iran?
Op-eds
Helsinki summit an opportunity to win Russia’s support for constraining Iran in Syria
Leading up to his meeting with President Putin of Russia, President Trump must convince Russia to help constrain Iran’s growing presence in Syria, says FDD’s John Hannah in his most recent op-ed f...
Op-eds
Controlled Chaos
The Escalation of Conflict between Israel and Iran in War-Torn Syria
Monographs
Perfect Partners
When he won the election, Donald Trump—along with his national security adviser Michael Flynn, his all-purpose counselor Stephen Bannon, and, perhaps, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—wa...
Op-eds
The Face-Off
Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...
Op-eds
Cash Rich, Aggressive
Two American reconnaissance planes ...
Op-eds
Understanding Iran’s Deployment of the S-300 System
Iranian outlets this week reportedly revealed that components of Iran’s first Russian-made...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s Telling SAMs
Iran seems bent on exposing the nuclear-deal illusions of President Obama even before he leaves office. The latest sign came Sunday, when Iran’s state-run media aired footage of the S-300 a...
Op-eds
Team Obama’s appalling smugness on Syrian refugees
State Department spokesman John Kirby sang the praises of President Obama’s Syria policy on Monday. And boy, was he tone deaf. Kirby tweeted out proudly: “Today we reached [O...