In Lebanon, the victories of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on the battlefield in 2024 risk being undermined, much like they were in 1982, by U.S. diplomacy. The Biden administration's final days and the cautious approach of the incoming Trump team...
Lebanon stands at a pivotal juncture, with its destiny hanging in the balance. The nation's security officials, who have historically supported Syrian and Iranian occupations, must be held accountable. The Lebanese army, particularly its Intelligenc...
All eyes are on the U.S. elections including those of the Mullahs in Iran and those of the Israeli government and especially the PM. We can hardly decipher what the Mullahs are thinking after their S-300 radars have been put out of action by the lat...
From the ongoing multifront war in the Middle East, to what could be dubbed “shocking scenes” of the opening ceremonies of Paris’ Olympic Games, to the renewed vicious attacks between the U.S. presidential candidates, to a summer that has been calle...
Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the U.S. (1913-1921) is remembered, on the world stage, as the champion of ‘self-determination’. The principle that called for any group of people, with the same political aspirations, to have the ri...
The Biden administration is floating a rumor regarding an imminent Saudi Israeli peace deal and that for several reasons, none of them being persuasive or remotely convincing. Some US sources claim that Netanyahu finds himself in a bin with the ongo...
“To stay, or not to stay”, that is the question. That could be a passage from Hamlet, paraphrased by U.S. strategists when reviewing their next moves on the Middle East chessboard. When the U.S. inherited the colonial crown of the British Empire, es...
America is not losing to its foreign enemies, rather it is falling victim to its self-inflicted, domestic wounds.
Ever since Barrack Obama’s presidency came to the fore, we have witnessed a rhetoric in America scarcely seen before. A loathing for...
The brokered truce between Iran and Saudi Arabia is an astounding diplomatic victory for China. Conversely, it is a gigantic diplomatic failure on the part of the Biden administration and for the US’ strategic interests as far as the Middle East is ...
Dana Stroul, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East recently attended a series of meetings in the GCC to discuss regional threats. Stroul leads the development of U.S. Department of Defense Policy and Strategy for Bahrain,...
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