OUT-THOUGHT
Washington has been totally outmaneuvered by Tehran since the War on Terror and Iran is now looking to push the U.S. out of the Middle East altogether.
James A. Warren is a writer and a former visiting scholar in the American Studies Department at Brown University. He is the author of Giap: The General Who Defeated America in Vietnam, and American Spartans: The United States Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima to Iraq, among other books.
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TWILIGHT WAR
Fears of a regional conflict are understandable, because the war has already spread far past Gaza and Israel.
Devastation
There have been paranoid theories aplenty to explain why the US Navy was so unprepared on December 7, 1941, but the simple truth is that we did not believe it could happen.
opinion
HEADS THEY WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE
Israel has little choice but to attack Hamas after last week’s invasion and massacres. But recent history has shown such incursions are incredibly hard to “win.”
escape artist
Once Rudolph Vrba became one of the handful of prisoners who escaped from the notorious concentration camp, he tried desperately to warn those on the outside.
CALLING JACK T. RIPPER
Even his fans and allies flinched when Putin made a recent nuclear threat, but the real takeaway is that the threat of nuclear Armageddon is worse than ever, with or without Putin.
POSTMORTEM
An excellent memoir by Elliot Ackerman lays bare all the good intentions, bad policies, and missteps that led to the chaos of collapse in 2021.
sooner than later
Beijing has always insisted Taiwan is part of China, and its sneering attitude toward the U.S. and its allies makes the threat more dire by the day.
Overreaction
The current commandant is a little worried about what conflict with China could look like, but his solutions, say retired generals and Corps members, are also problematic.
THE PATH OF ARROGANCE
The intel failures behind conflicts from Vietnam to Afghanistan are not identical, but most of them come down to the people in power not listening to the spies on the ground.