After its latest escalation, Tehran may be forced to reconsider its entire approach to national security, including leveraging its status as a threshold nuclear state to counter Israel. On October 1, Iran launched its second direct attack on Israel within six months. Code-named Operation True Promise 2, this assault came …

In the wake of Finland and Sweden’s accessions to NATO, the alliance’s northern military power will be greatly expanded—if the Nordic and Baltic states adequately coordinate to overcome risks such as overstretching and competition. Finland and Sweden’s entry into NATO is rightly hailed as a historic event: It represents the …

While Hezbollah’s daily newspaper in Lebanon praised the New York Times and the Washington Post for their flattering obituary of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, most Arabs celebrated the end of someone they saw as a tyrant who had ordered the assassination of his Lebanese opponents and the killing and displacement …