Security
Can Israel End Its Forever Wars?
The Netanyahu doctrine could outlast Netanyahu.
The Case for a Stalemate With Iran
America can win if it stays the course.
The Powder Keg in Outer Space
How to head off a new arms competition.
The Road Through Damascus
How Syria can capitalize on the post-Hormuz economy.
The Longest Wars
Richard Holbrooke helped normalize U.S. relations with China; served as U.S. ambassador to a newly reunified Germany and then to the United Nations; and, most famously, negotiated the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. But he began and ended his career struggling with how to resolve two American wars: first in Vietnam, then in Afghanistan.
The Five Futures of Russia
And how America can prepare for whatever comes next.
The Future of Ukraine’s Drone Democracy
Transforming the military has changed the war—and upended politics.
The Impossible Middle East
After the Iran war, the region has no good options.
Maximum Pressure on Iran Will Fail
Trump’s war has brought American strategy to a dead end.
America Doesn’t Need More Nuclear Weapons
Expanding the stockpile could weaken deterrence.