As calls grow for a ‘victory’ over Russia, we should examine whether such a win-lose outcome is even possible. Tell me how this ends. General David Petraeus famously posed this question at the outset of the Iraq War in 2003. In retrospect, to say that the Bush administration’s expectations for …

Declaring someone irrational leads to a place in which no one wants to negotiate, because, no one wants to talk to crazy people. A number of things about Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are not in doubt: that it was a deeply criminal act; that it has been accompanied by great …

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan paved the way for the Islamist group to regain a safe haven This week marks 11 years since the death of Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of al-Qaida. On May 1, 2011, US President Barack Obama announced his death, slain during a US …