Sectarianism and War in Iraq and Syria
In mid-December 2016, outgoing U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon referred to Aleppo as a “synonym for hell“ and...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Sectarianism and War in Iraq and Syria
A nation must think before it acts.
USA
President Trump
Al Majalla American presidential election campaigns, for all their pageantry and constantly increasing length, are generally predictable affairs. Although...
A Presidential Strategy Board: Enabling Strategic Competence
The National Security Council (NSC) staff was once called the Keepers of the Keys, managers of the coordinating process...
Resolution Convolutions
The State of Israel, and the U.S.-Israeli relationship, now stand before new perils—potentially quite serious ones. You might suppose...
The CIA is delaying our books’ publication, and that hurts our democracy
The Washington Post We are former senior CIA analysts who, in our combined 23 years of service, have been privy...
The Tragedy of Obama’s Foreign Policy
Current History During his first campaign for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama held out the promise of a...
Putin Is No Partner on Terrorism
Foreign Affairs Of all the illusions surrounding U.S.–Russian relations, none is more dangerous than the notion that Russia can be...
Looking Back a Quarter Century after the USSR’s Collapse
On 7:32pm on December 25, 1991, a red flag with a golden hammer and sickle was lowered for the...
Strategic Planning for the New Administration
Hoover Institution On January 20, 2017, President-Elect Trump will inherit a powerful array of international challenges, capabilities, and opportunities....
How We Misunderstand the Sources of Religious Violence
In these days and in this country, when most people hear the phrase “sources of religious violence,” they tend...