Click here to download the JINSA Insight Sitting beside Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prior to the 2026 NATO summit in Ankara on July 7, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would lift the Countering America’s Adversaries Through…

Click here to download the JINSA Insight Since the United States lifted its naval blockade on June 17 and waived U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil—via the U.S. Treasury Department’s General License X—on June 21, the Iranian regime has likely reaped…

Click here to download the JINSA Insight Sometimes one can do something right for the wrong reason. It was strategic folly for the United States to commit to Iran in the Memorandum of Understanding “to remove its forces from the…

Click here to download the JINSA Insight. The memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed on June 17 between the United States and Iran concedes, defers, or omits nearly every strategic objective the administration cited in launching Operation Epic Fury. Iran’s nuclear…