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As a retired Green Beret with 25 years in the U.S. Army, I have spent much of my life in the dust of Iraq and Afghanistan. I have seen,... Read More

Access to the Strait of Hormuz, which carries roughly a quarter of global oil flows, remains contested. The waterway has been... Read More

One of the biggest geopolitical consequences of the recent U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran is the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Read More

An Iranian opposition leader criticised European countries on Wednesday for doing too little to halt executions in Iran, after Tehran carried... Read More

Hungary’s incoming prime minister wants to forge closer ties with Austria and other Central European nations to wield greater power in... Read More

When Donald Trump won the 2024 election, bringing self-identified postliberal J.D. Vance into the White House, friends told me that James M.... Read More

Iraq’s oil exports have collapsed by up to 80% due to the Hormuz disruption, creating a severe fiscal crisis for an oil-dependent... Read More

Nothing that the Iranians say can be taken at face value because there is no Iranian government. The first and second echelon of that... Read More

Perhaps we should be used to be this by now. Yet again, there have been a flurry of promises to rapidly achieve peace in Iran. Yet again, the... Read More

If anyone knows that President Donald Trump, for all his bluster, can mean what he says, it is the Iranians. Read More

The reality that regime change is not going to happen as a result of this war seems to have settled in at the White House.  Read More

The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times editorial writer, Tom Friedman, says he is “torn” between his wish to have Iran... Read More

While Washington remains mired in the tactical mud of the Middle East, acting reckless, erratic, and increasingly lawless, China is playing a... Read More

There has been a notable absence from the Iran war, only occasionally rearing his head, and, even then, without much... Read More

At the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, dozens of senior officials from around the world sat alongside... Read More

When he’s on full blast, Donald Trump (not so long ago the “drill, baby, drill” candidate for president) is distinctly a... Read More

Remember the Paris Agreement? Signed a decade ago today, it was hailed as a historic milestone in the fight against climate change, with... Read More

If you value privacy, you may not want to go to Hong Kong anytime soon. Already reeling under the draconian National Security Law, the... Read More

American foreign policy has derived much of its power and sense of direction from liberal ideals.   Read More

Multiple sources tell me that a credible whistleblower complaint was filed alleging the CIA, FBI and other IC agencies suppressed... Read More

There is growing international concern as the fragile two-week ceasefire reaches its Wednesday deadline. Whatever happens next, the... Read More

The Iranian regime continues to silence the Iranian people through an internet blackout, obstruction of satellite transmissions and cutting... Read More

The sudden eruption of war in the Mideast Gulf has created dramatic new risks for global energy security. Read More

The prevailing narrative on Iran has it almost perfectly reversed. We are told that Tehran is winning a war of wills in the Gulf and that... Read More

But a series of escalations by the US are complicating those efforts, say analysts.   Read More

The US Navy and Iran are simultaneously attempting to blockade the same target—an unusual, but hardly unprecedented, state of... Read More

As President Donald Trump convenes a Situation Room meeting over tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, the language of... Read More

Pressure on Russia’s structural weaknesses could help Ukraine and force Russia to the negotiating table.   Read More

There’s a certain class of commentator—overrepresented on cable panels and cocktail parties—that insists the central... Read More

Japan has lifted a post-war ban on weapons exports as it moves away from a pacifist stance that has defined its defence policy since the end... Read More

China’s growing bid for global economic dominance is increasingly visible in its deepening investments across Africa, with... Read More

The second is an event so obscure most Americans don’t even know it happened — the Feb. 12 repeal of the 2009 Endangerment... Read More

As US elections approach, the Hungarian prime minister’s loss is a reminder that history does not march relentlessly toward... Read More

The large number of candidates standing in the 2027 elections makes the outcome highly uncertain.     Read More

Thanks to Trump, EU governments are trying to break their overreliance on U.S. technology. It won’t be cheap or easy.   Read More

Pedro Sanchez’s anti-American crusade exposes a deeper truth: the global Left’s ideology remains rooted in recycled Marxism,... Read More

In late March, I sat in the gallery of the Supreme Court for the first time in my life. Throughout my 30 years of grassroots anti-poverty... Read More

In the wee hours of Sunday, March 1, a Senegalese immigrant clad in a sweatshirt bearing the words “Property of Allah” opened... Read More

Are the US and Iran on the verge of a full peace agreement — or a return to all-out war?   Read More

On Apr. 17, when Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced that the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened to... Read More

The World Economic Forum at Davos is rarely the site of geopolitical rupture. But this year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood before... Read More

When he came to power last year, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised a “defense dividend.” Defense spending... Read More

Britain has an alarming casualty rate as far as prime ministers are concerned. It has lost five in the last decade. It could be about to lose... Read More

For years, proponents of the Middle Corridor argued that any transit architecture dependent on Russian or Iranian territory was one crisis... Read More