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Can Dems harness Iran war anger to sink Trump’s military budget?
Congress returned to Washington DC this week after its July 4 recess. With President Donald Trump having recently declared the memorandum of understanding…
The Iran war destroyed the strategic logic of the Abraham Accords
The Abraham Accords sought to succeed where decades of negotiations had failed. By separating Arab normalization with Israel from the Palestinian issue, the…
Voters: The military makes us feel safe but not sure it’s worth a trillion
There is a growing disconnect between how American voters think about safety and how Washington spends money in the name of national security….
Why can’t the US get Southeast Asia’s support in the South China Sea
Sunday marked a decade since an Arbitral Tribunal at The Hague handed a near total victory to the Philippines, a U.S. treaty ally,…
Happy birthday to the ever-expanding national security state
Seventy-nine years ago this month, President Harry Truman signed the National Security Act, which quickly morphed into today’s metastasizing, often abusive, national security…
Tucker Carlson’s left-right, third party dream
As the establishments of both major parties remain firmly wedded to Washington’s foreign policy consensus, particularly on U.S.-Israel relations, hard ideological factions on…
Obama has a lot to say about everything but his foreign policy
Opening his new Presidential Center in Chicago, Barack Obama once again gave eloquent expression to his faith in the fundamental American values of…
A new US-Iran war would end where the last one did
For all practical purposes, the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of (Mis)Understanding is over. The dispute over how to manage the Strait of Hormuz in the…
The Houthis are increasingly setting their own agenda
In early July, an Iranian civilian aircraft landed in Houthi-controlled Sana’a, breaching a Saudi air blockade in place for nearly a decade. Then,…
The earthquake sprung Trump’s Venezuela trap
When the Trump administration decided to “run” Venezuela through Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, the aim was to keep things quiet following its January…
