Tag: syria

ISIS—Containment the Best U.S. Policy

Richard C. Young - March 12, 2015

Writing in Foreign Affairs, Audrey Kurth Cronin, Distinguished Professor and Director of the International Security Program at George Mason University and author of How...

The Second-Largest Army in NATO

Richard C. Young - February 24, 2015

Originally posted August 14, 2014. That would be Turkey! Let the Turks wipe out ISIS. American interests are not threatened, and American intervention is not...

Where is Turkey’s 400,000 Man Army?

Richard C. Young - February 24, 2015

Originally posted September 26, 2014. As Pat Buchanan notes, Turkey has 1,000 planes, 3,600 tanks, and 3,000 artillery pieces and “could make hash of the...

MAP: Patchwork Syria

The Editors - December 30, 2014

Competing religious groups and ethnicities are tearing Syria into a patchwork of localized spheres of control. Stratfor (subscription required) has developed a map illustrating the...

US Airstrikes Kill 900 in Syria/Iraq Fighting

The Editors - November 24, 2014

The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, one of the more accurate chroniclers of the war in Syria, has reported that so far the airstrikes...

The World’s Political Winds Have Shifted

Richard C. Young - November 2, 2014

Daniel Henninger explains that Democrats Crash-Land the Planet. Want to know how to really scare a Democratic candidate for Congress on Halloween? Forget the Sarah...

U.S.Repeating Past Mistakes

Richard C. Young - October 20, 2014

Here the American Conservative’s Daniel Larison explains America’s tendency to exaggerate foreign threats. Stephen Walt sees the U.S. repeating past mistakes in its war on...

The U.S. in a Geopolitical Minefield

Richard C. Young - October 17, 2014

The Cato Institute's Ted Galen Carpenter asks if the U.S. is prepared to stay involved in a multi-decade regional Middle East power struggle. U.S. and...

Failed Weinberger/Powell Tests

Richard C. Young - October 9, 2014

Barack Obama needs to go to Congress and explain how his misguided foray into Syria meets the tests of the Weinberger/Powell Doctrine. Daniel Larison...

Escalation in Syria Inevitable?

The Editors - October 9, 2014

Daniel Larison at The American Conservative writes that the President may have trapped himself into inevitable escalation in the war in Syria. Vietnam comparisons are...

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