Iran’s Space Launch: ICBM or Space Program Development?
On January 3, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Iran was preparing to launch multiple Space Launch Vehicles...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Iran’s Space Launch: ICBM or Space Program Development?
A nation must think before it acts.
Iran
Russian and Iranian “Victory” in Syria: Does It Matter?
Earlier this week reports began swirling that President Trump has decided to pull all U.S. troops from Syria despite...
Rebuilding Iraq’s Public Works Infrastructure Following the Defeat of ISIS
This report studies the challenges of rebuilding Iraq’s public works infrastructure following the “perfect storm” of the ISIS insurgency...
Intelligent U.S. Foreign Policy Begins with Seeing Complexity in both Riyadh and Tehran
U.S. decision makers have often had to apply this kind of mental dexterity in crafting foreign policies toward Saudi...
Why the Khashoggi Scandal Won’t Change Much
Analysts have heralded the Khashoggi scandal—the mysterious killing of Saudi-born Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate...
Sanctioning Iran, Developing Relations with India, and the New Economic Order
On May 8, 2018, President Donald Trump announced that the United States was withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan...
Strategic Implications of the Syrian Offensive in Idlib
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces appear poised to launch an offensive operation to retake all or portions of Syria’s...
As the Middle East Turns: Domestic Unrest, Changing Partnerships, and an Unreliable United States
This summer was deceptively quiet in the Arab Middle East: in contrast to many previous years, there was little...
Saudi Arabia’s New Realism in Iraq
Many analysts have attempted to explain the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s outreach to post-2003 Iraq as a desire for...
The Brewing Battle over U.S. Troop Presence in Syria
The U.S. presently maintains a force of some 2,000 troops located mostly in the northeast of Syria. These units...