Reciprocity and Coercion: Ending the Downturn in U.S.-Iran Relations
Just days after the United States struck Iranian-linked targets in Syria, militia members fired a volley of rockets at...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Reciprocity and Coercion: Ending the Downturn in U.S.-Iran Relations
A nation must think before it acts.
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Beyond Oil: Lithium-Ion Battery Minerals and Energy Security
Oil has long dominated concerns about energy security because oil products have fueled nearly all of the world’s transportation...
Russia’s Permanent War against Georgia
As the Biden administration works to develop its strategy to counter the Russian Federation, it is useful to reexamine...
Jihadist Groups in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing the Threat
As the Biden administration surveys the litany of foreign policy challenges that exist—Iran, China, Russia, and North Korea, to...
Thank You for Being a Friend: NATO, Iraq, and the Benefits of the Alliance
After a recent meeting of defense ministers in Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the Alliance would expand...
Talking to Russia: A Plan for Syria
President Joseph Biden has clearly signaled that his administration will deprioritize the post-9/11 focus on the Middle East and,...
The Intelligence Community and Open-Source Information in the Digital Age
On January 22, 2021, the New York Times reported that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was acquiring commercially available...
The Quad: Form without Substance?
The declassification of the U.S. Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific in the waning days of the Trump administration stated...
The Crete Mirage: Why Rapprochement with Turkey May be a Long Way Off
After years of disagreement about Turkey’s purchase of a Russian-made S-400 air and missile system, Ankara has suggested that...
The Ryukyu Defense Line: Japan’s Response to China’s Naval Push into the Pacific Ocean
For most of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, the sea was the path over...