A military bemedaled, bothered, and beleaguered
ahmed sabirBy William Astore Today's "best of" piece takes me back a long way. Historian and retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel William Astore sent me an email out of the blue…
Changing World Situation Requires Resilient Nuclear Posture, DoD Official Says
WASHINGTON --The world has changed and America’s nuclear strategy has to change as well, the deputy undersecretary of defense for policy said here today. David J. Trachtenberg told a Mitchell Institute…
CIA chief’s meeting with Kim Jong-un is latest step in winding path to talks
By Austin Ramzy & Emily Cochraneapril Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director and nominee to be the next secretary of state, traveled to North Korea and met with its leader, Kim…
US hybrid war arrives to replace Cold War
By Dmitri Trenin It would be too far-fetched to compare the recent US-Russian standoff in Syria with the 1962 US-Soviet Cuban missile crisis. Then, a nuclear war between the two…
Analysing current American geo-strategy
The US is accustomed to leading the world order it has engineered since WWII By Zahid Mehmood Zahid It is safe to say that no country is more distressed by today's…
Trump might give Iran an incalculable windfall
President Trump said the United States would be withdrawing forces from Syria “very soon” at an event last week in Richfield, Ohio By Max Boot “We're on the two-yard line.…
Getting ready for Nuclear War
By Brian Cloughley John Bolton is to assume the appointment as President Trump's National Security Adviser on April 9. On February 28 he wrote in the Wall Street Journal that…
Empire strikes back
By Munir Akram In a little over a year, US President Donald Trump's 'America First' posture has been translated into an extensive and aggressive agenda to reclaim US global pre-eminence:…
Weapons US & Russian nuclear arsenals set to be unchecked for first time since 1972
Arms control experts have signed a statement warning international constraints will expire in 2021 unless a new nuclear deal is reached By Julian Borger A Russian Topol M intercontinental ballistic…
Facing China’s belt and road?
By Tan Ming Hui & Nazia Hussain The short-lived multilateral Quad of four democracies appears to be earning a new lease of life, partly due to a combined push by…