Taliban facing backlash after U.S. drone strike against al-Qaeda leader
Posted on Monday October 3 2022
By Pamela Constable, The Washington Post, August 2, 2022
Posted on Monday October 3 2022
By Pamela Constable, The Washington Post, August 2, 2022
Posted on Tuesday April 8
“The IMF and World Bank did well under the first Trump administration. Will they again?,” by Martin Mühleisen, The Atlantic Council, December 3, 2024. For the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, the election of Donald Trump as US president in 2016 seemed to present an existential question. If their largest shareholder was going to be […]
Posted on Wednesday March 5
by John Letzing and Spencer Feingold. World Economic Forum. January 28, 2025. “The headline for us this year is: Unpredictable.” When Comfort Ero’s organization compiled its annual Conflicts to Watch for 2024, the list ranged from the very prominent (Gaza) to the often overlooked (Sudan). 2025 has somehow added even more uncertainty to an already […]
Posted on Wednesday February 5
“All-in On the U.S.-Korea Relationship – More Jobs, More Investment, More Prosperity,” by Henry Haggard, Center for Strategic and International Studies, November 7, 2024. Korean companies have invested 114 billion dollars in the United States in the last three years, creating tens of thousands of American jobs and helping to rebuild our manufacturing base in the United […]
Posted on Monday January 6
By Douglas Lute, Council on Foreign Relations, November 26, 2024. With President-elect Donald Trump set to take office on January 20, little time remains to make a definitively positive impact on the war in Ukraine. The Joe Biden administration can accelerate authorized and appropriated military support over the next sixty days, reducing the backlog of […]
Posted on Sunday December 1
“Existentially important politics,” by James Bosworth, Latin America Risk Report, December 26, 2023. In recent years, we don’t get many boring elections in the hemisphere. Instead, it feels like every president is elected in a moment of crisis with a mandate to change the direction of the country. In the space between elections, political systems […]
Posted on Saturday November 2
“New Supply ‘Front’ for Afghan War Runs Across Russia, Georgia and the ‘Stans,” by Bill Marmon, The European Institute, February – March 2010. The U.S. engagement in Afghanistan, including the 30,000 “plus-up” currently underway, represents one of the most difficult logistical challenges in the annals of war – a challenge even for the United States, […]
Posted on Thursday October 10
“War Unbound: Gaza, Ukraine, and the Breakdown of International Law,” by Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, April 23, 2024. Hamas’s attack on Israel and Israel’s response to it have been a disaster for civilians. In its October 7 massacre, Hamas sought out unarmed Israeli civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, killing close to 1,200 […]
Posted on Tuesday September 3
“Success in the Struggle against the People’s Republic of China,” by Dr. John Lee and Dr. Lavina Lee, Hudson Institute, June 2023. In April 2023, the Australian government released the officially commissioned but independently produced Defence Strategic Review. Intended to assist the government of Australia with its strategic and defense policies over the next decade […]
Posted on Tuesday August 6
“The ‘Climate Crisis’ Fades Out,” by Steven E. Koonin, Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2023. The 2015 Paris Agreement aspired to “reduce the risks and impacts of climate change” by eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions in the latter half of this century. The centerpiece of the strategy was a global transition to low-emission energy systems. After nearly […]
Posted on Tuesday July 23
“National Security Memorandum on United States Global Leadership to Strengthen the International COVID-19 Response and to Advance Global Health Security and Biological Preparedness,” by US White House, National Security Memorandum, January 21, 2021. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a grave reminder that biological threats, whether naturally occurring, accidental, or deliberate, can have significant and […]
Posted on Friday June 28
“NATO Ready for Battle, but Lacks Stamina, Report Finds,” by Laura Heckman, National Defense, June 11, 2024. Since NATO’s adoption of a “back to the future” strategy at its Madrid Summit two years ago on the heels of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the alliance has made significant strides toward forward defense and deterrence, and […]
Posted on Tuesday June 4
“The Middle East and the President’s Sweeping Power Over Self-Defense,” by Jack Goldsmith, Lawfare, October 23, 2023. The Middle East may be on the verge of large-scale war, and the U.S. military is literally on the firing line. Late last week, the USS Carney intercepted and destroyed three missiles and several drones fired from Yemen even though […]
Posted on Monday May 13
“A way forward on a US-Saudi civil nuclear agreement,” by Robert Einhorn, Brookings Institution, April 12, 2024. The Biden administration has responded positively to Saudi Arabia’s interest in civil nuclear cooperation with the United States—both because such cooperation is a Saudi condition for the normalization of Saudi-Israeli relations, which the administration strongly supports, and because […]
Posted on Friday March 22
By Edward Lucas, Catherine Sendak, Charlotta Collén, Jan Kallberg and Krista Viksnins, Center for European Policy Analysis, September 28, 2023. For the countries around the Baltic Sea, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine both highlighted a problem and created a potential solution to it. The Kremlin’s unambiguous demonstration of aggressive intent and capability underlined the risks of dismantling […]
Posted on Saturday March 2
By Jake Walles, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 19, 2021. The arrival of a new U.S. administration offers a welcome opportunity for a reset of U.S. policy vis-á-vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Donald Trump’s administration followed an approach that diverged sharply from those of its predecessors, but its so-called new thinking achieved little and unnecessarily alienated […]