Foreign Policy

SHOTS FIRED: Hostilities Resume in the Persian Gulf

After nearly a month of quiet, the United States attacked Iranian targets, and Iran fired back at American positions around the region. CENTCOM explained...

Unfertile Ground

In The Wall Street Journal, Jeff Stier, a Senior Fellow at the Heartland Institute, discusses the potential for a shock to the food supply....

China Underwrites Cheap Drone Production in Iran, Russia

Variants of Iran's cheap, long-range Shahed suicide drone have dominated the skies over Russia and Ukraine for years, and now the skies over the...

Let George W. Bush Help Trump

Trump is unpopular. That is no secret. In RealClearPolitics, his average is 39%. A season of political rallies won’t improve that. Less campaigning might, advises...

Russia’s Attempt to Erase Ukrainian Culture

Russia’s invasion has caused widespread destruction of Ukrainian libraries, books and publishing facilities, with Ukrainian officials reporting that 906 libraries have been damaged or...

Is the Iran War an Escalatory Trap?

UPDATE 8.10.26: Weeks after Alistaire Crooke explained the escalatory trap faced by the Trump administration and Iran, it appears that, so far at least,...

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