Foreign Policy
The US has the ability to achieve victory in Iran
Americans tend to ignore foreign policy. Living in a continent-sized nation bounded by two vast oceans allows for that dangerous self-deception. But when we’re attacked or the price of gas spikes, we’re rudely reminded that…
Iran and the crisis in the European mind
The politics of the Iranian war feature an observable gap between interest and action for nearly all parties. The Americans possessed overwhelming casus belli versus Iran for nearly half a century, and did not act upon it…
What History Tells Us About Trump’s Plan To Defeat Iran By Air
President Donald Trump called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” on March 6. But can he do that with U.S. air power alone? The answer is likely yes — if the Iranian people themselves are also the “boots on the ground.” Air…
Strikes on Iran raise important questions
There is still a lot we don’t know about America’s bombing of Iran. What does a “preemptive” strike really mean? Is it a “regime change” war or the bombing just happened to cause a change in regime? What role did allied and…
Iran didn’t adapt to America’s playbook. Russia and China already have
America’s two great-power adversaries, Russia and China, have already drawn significant lessons from Operation Epic Fury. The world now knows that, in a daring daylight strike on a clear Saturday in Tehran, the United States…
Regime Change: How I Learned to ‘Trust the Plan’
Foreign intervention, for many millennials like myself, has the taste of bitter fruit. Just the phrase passing our lips is going to produce turned-up noses followed by talking points about how many of our overseas adventures…
Rubio distills Trump’s foreign policy approach
Jennifer Van Laar writes for RedState.com about significant comments from the US secretary of state. We got a lot of great news, and great sound bites, out of President Trump’s Tuesday cabinet meeting, but it was Secretary of…
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