Even “in the early months of 1914 the international sky seemed clearer than it had been,” he later wrote in his memoirs. World War I, of course, broke out just months later, and went on to kill 40 ...

But it is clear that after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed, Trump hoped to deal with a transactional authoritarian figure. He called “what we did in Venezuela”—forcing the replacement of one ...

Since 2020, Russia has been expanding its presence in the Sahel region, seizing the initiative from Paris and Washington and enhancing its standing across sub-Saharan Africa. Recognizing that mounting ...

At the outset of Operation Epic Fury, U.S. authorities went on a nationwide high alert against acts of terrorism carried out by Iran and its proxies—with good reason. Days after U.S. and Israeli ...

But the Iran war shares a deeper strategic reality with these predecessors. Washington is once again fighting a weaker regional power without having clear objectives, a defined theory of victory, and ...

Deng, citing Das Kapital by Karl Marx, began to sound the alarm about the greedy capitalists extracting surpluses from the Chinese proletariat. To him, large private businesses were inherently ...

After years of condemnations, sanctions, and small-scale attacks, in late February, the United States and Israel finally launched a large-scale war on Iran. In the time since, U.S. and Israeli forces ...

For more than two decades, I served on the frontlines of the U.S.-Mexican relationship, including as Mexico’s ambassador to the United States. With government colleagues, as well as NGOs and civil ...

After a decade of elevated tensions, Washington and Beijing now find themselves navigating relatively calm waters. Last October, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reached an ...

As the deceased commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, once put it, maintaining deterrence is like riding a bicycle: “You have to keep pedaling all the ...

Yet when the United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran in late February—the second in just eight months, following last summer’s 12-day war—Russia mostly stood idly by. Putin called the ...

Seventeen years ago, while serving as an Iran desk officer in the U.S. State Department, I asked a more veteran colleague about the latest inflammatory statement by Mahmood Ahmadinejad, then the ...