Eurasia

In recent years, many Israelis, both regular citizens as well as policymakers, have concluded that a war with Hezbollah was necessary — perhaps inevitable — given the Lebanese militant group’s on-again, off-again missile strikes against Israel’s border communities. This perception only intensified after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, when …

Israel’s violence toward its neighbors, long out of control in its destruction of Gaza, now threatens to open new fronts, involve new nations, and even drag the United States into direct conflict. Promises of a ceasefire from the Biden Administration have come to nothing. Soft, behind the scenes diplomacy has …

Conservative and Labour governments supported Baghdad’s brutal attack on the Kurds 60 years ago, knowing it may have constituted genocide, declassified files show. UK ministers stepped up arms exports to Iraq’s regime after it launched a “terror campaign” against the Kurds in 1963Thousands of rockets were sent to Baghdad knowing …

Andrei Martyanov s’est taillé une place unique, auréolée d’une pensée critique profonde sur toutes les questions de guerre et de paix. Dans ses livres précédents, sur son blog Reminiscence of the Future et dans d’innombrables podcasts, il est devenu la source incontournable pour tout ce qui concerne les rouages de …

What is the MENA region? MENA is the acronym for “Middle East and North Africa”, regularly used in academic and business writings. It refers to a large region, from Morocco in northwest Africa to Iran in southwest Asia, which generally includes all the countries of the Middle East and North …

As world leaders gather in New York for the UN General Assembly, global attention is glued to the latest escalation taking place in the Middle East between Israel and Hezbollah, which has brought the region yet another step closer to all-out war. On Monday, nearly 500 people, including 35 children, …

Two key posts – in foreign and defense policy – reveal the militarist and anti-Russia direction of the European Union. Ursula Von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission – which works as the executive branch of the European Union – announced her new team of commissioners for the …

A Trump Win Would Cause a Crisis for Kyiv—but Wouldn’t Guarantee Defeat Having a strategy—a theory of victory—is essential to winning a war. In 2022, Russia’s initial plan to capture Kyiv and decapitate Ukraine’s leadership failed, and its current approach of grinding down Ukraine’s resistance through attritional war is just …

In light of the significant losses suffered by Hezbollah and the escalating concerns in Tehran regarding a potentially unpredictable Israeli attack, the regime’s current strategy appears to be one of damage control. Iran believes that so long as there remains a foundation to build upon, it can eventually reestablish its …

In a world where American adversaries across the globe are deepening their strategic partnerships to undermine U.S. power and influence, Michael Singh correctly highlights the need to integrate America’s Middle East policy into an overarching U.S. grand strategy. China today is in a stronger position in the Middle East than …