Whether the U.S. Air Force (USAF) requires a larger, modern fighter force is no longer an open question—it does. China’s military is on track to have the largest fighter force in the world, surpassing the United States in comparative numbers within this…
The latest U.S. military attacks against Iran have been criticized by several members of Congress — including Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) and Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Virginia) — who argue the Iranian threat, nuclear or otherwise, was insufficiently imminent to justify self-defense.…
For nearly half a century, the Islamic Republic has been preparing a war to destroy the State of Israel. The regime in Iran has invested hundreds of billions of dollars, primarily in three major efforts to realise that ambition: the…
The joint U.S.-Israeli operation that began over the weekend is notching significant victories against Iran’s regime. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is gone, along with key government and military officials, in a surprisingly effective decapitation campaign echoing Israel’s opening strikes last…
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. The man who ruled the Islamic Republic of Iran for 36 years, outlasted six American presidents, built and sustained the most consequential sponsor of terrorism in the modern Middle East, forged an empire that extended…
For decades, Iran managed to bluff American presidents. It deterred attacks from a superpower and carried out proxy campaigns against its neighbors and Israel. Our strikes on Iran on Saturday are evidence that this long-term strategy of negotiating in bad…
As Washington once again attempts diplomacy with Tehran amid an expanded US naval and air posture, the United States faces a familiar risk: defining success too narrowly. Past efforts to manage the Iran challenge have understandably focused on Iran’s nuclear program while treating regional…
The United States is returning to negotiations with Iran for the worst possible reason. Talking has become U.S. President Donald Trump’s Plan B, now that he realizes American forces are not “locked and loaded” with credible options to damage Iran’s…
As the Trump administration weighs strikes on Iran following the regime’s brutal killing of protestors, it must reckon with a hard lesson from last June: in just 12 days of Israel–Iran fighting, U.S. and Israeli munitions fell to dangerously low…
“The Syrian Democratic Forces’ [SDF] insistence on protecting what it has at all costs is the biggest obstacle to achieving peace and stability in Syria.” That’s what Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said in early January, blaming Syria’s Kurdish-led SDF…