President Donald Trump’s economic D-Day is already hurting the Iranian regime’s revenues, but unilateral U.S. sanctions can only do so much. If the president wants Iran to fold, he’ll have to play a much better card — cutting it off…
The U.S. defense industrial base today faces a critical minerals challenge—one with serious national security implications. On August 4, media reports indicated that a major U.S. defense contractor is, for the first time, planning to source germanium and scandium—critical minerals…
In August, Turkey’s parliament passed a law that will allow thousands of members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down their weapons and thousands more political prisoners and exiles to return to normal life. Over the coming months,…
Excerpt Below: As the conflict with Iran continues to oscillate between combat operations and diplomacy, it is worth remembering why we are doing this. The goal is to end Iran’s ability to make a nuclear weapon, and while we don’t…