March 10, 2017 10:24 amPublished by Eli GilmanLeave your thoughts
I have spent the past week traveling around the Kurdish Region of Iraq conducting research on the behalf of...
March 9, 2017 12:26 pmPublished by Eli GilmanLeave your thoughts
The Shanghai Communique of 1972 and the U.S.-China Joint Communiques of 1979 and 1982 have been essential foundations of...
February 27, 2017 4:19 pmPublished by Eli Gilman3 Comments
I was a CIA analyst working in the Counterterrorism Center in the run-up to the Iraq war. We didn’t...
February 24, 2017 4:01 pmPublished by Eli Gilman1 Comment
With Mary Mapes Dodge’s Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, the English-speaking world took to heart the tale of...
February 22, 2017 1:59 pmPublished by Eli GilmanLeave your thoughts
Much has been made about President Trump’s selection of Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster as his new National Security...
February 6, 2017 3:17 pmPublished by Eli GilmanLeave your thoughts
Last week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis made his first official foreign visit as a member of the Trump...
January 27, 2017 4:32 pmPublished by Eli GilmanLeave your thoughts
In Gore Vidal’s stage play turned film, “The Best Man,” President Art Hockstader says, “Power is not a toy...
January 26, 2017 2:00 pmPublished by Eli Gilman5 Comments
Yesterday was not a good day in American history: We initiated a migration ban on seven Muslim countries, although...
January 5, 2017 8:58 amPublished by Eli GilmanLeave your thoughts
Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry gave an extensive speech about the U.S. decision not to veto a...
January 4, 2017 10:14 amPublished by Eli Gilman1 Comment
Photo credit: The Office of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio On January 7, President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan will embark...