Analysis & Commentary

Analysis & Commentary

Time is the United States’s greatest adversary as nuclear negotiations with Iran resume, but it is not too late to control the clock. Tehran is likely to draw out talks, claiming good-faith cooperation while buying time to continue advancing toward

One of the most indelible images from this spring’s Gaza conflict is the Israeli night sky streaked with rockets and Iron Dome interceptors rising to meet them. However, as the authors found on a detailed fact-finding trip to Israel this

A Better Path Forward for Handling Iran

After months of buying time to further advance its nuclear program, Iran announced this month that it will return to nuclear negotiations by December. The White House’s meek response—enjoining Tehran to conduct diplomacy “in good faith“—at best reflects the triumph

Driven by rising great power competition with China and Russia, the Biden administration is conducting a global force posture review, which, as the Pentagon describes it, involves putting “the correct number of troops in the correct places.” This entails difficult