The question is whether and how these historical echoes will affect decisionmaking in Russia, Iran, China, Pakistan, and India. Wh ...
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Since the fall of Kabul—and well beforehand—Iranian officials have signaled how they might use a Taliban victory to further their ...
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On August 4, personnel from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) boarded the Emirati bitumen tanker Asphalt Princess in ...
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In 2008, I interviewed the United Kingdom’s then outgoing military commander in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, in a d ...
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war,” the late French prime minister Georges Clemenceau famously remarked, “is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. ...
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On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda carried out the deadliest foreign terrorist attack the United States had ever experienced. To Osam ...
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Last week, the Turkish news site Ahval reported that the Iraqi government invited Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to a reg ...
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Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in November 1991, the area that extends from central Europe to Central Asia has been com ...
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When former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe invited officials from Australia, India, and the United States to meet in Manila in ...
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The last few years have witnessed a paradigm shift in U.S. foreign policy. The Middle East is no longer Washington’s top priority. ...
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