Day: July 23, 2018

America’s Afghanistan Strategy Proves That the Vietnam Analogy Does Not Apply

July 23, 2018 Opinion

America’s War in Vietnam remains a signpost signifying a moment when America’s own exceptionalist myth of invincibility began to falter in open sight. The watershed moment of the last helicopter leavi…

Is Nepal a Source of Competition or Cooperation Between India and China?

July 23, 2018 Opinion

From June 19 through 24 of this year, the prime minister of Nepal, K. P. Sharma Oli, accompanied by ministers of the economic block of the government was on an official visit to China, at the invitati…

The Palestinian Authority, the ICC and Israel

July 23, 2018 Opinion

Last week, the International Criminal Court announced it would commence the pretrial phase of a war crimes case brought by the Palestinian Authority (PA) against Israel. An Israeli news report called …

White Helmets “Rescued” by Israel via Golan Heights in Overnight Operation

July 23, 2018 Opinion

Overnight Saturday Israel evacuated 800 White Helmets members and their families from southern Syria in an operation that took them briefly into Israeli territory and then on to Jordan, where they are…

Making Sense of U.S. Moves in the Middle East

July 23, 2018 Opinion

My father and I always had a tacit agreement: “We will never speak of That Part of the World.” He’d grown up in an Orthodox Jewish family in Norfolk, Virginia. His own father, a refugee from early-twe…

America Overrules Trump: No Peace with Russia

July 23, 2018 Opinion

The governments of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, if their countries are to survive, must give up their deluded hopes of reaching agreements with the United States. No such possibility exists o…

The Global Growth of U.S. Special Operations Forces – 133 Countries Down, 17 to Go?

July 23, 2018 Opinion

Early last month, at a tiny military post near the tumbledown town of Jamaame in Somalia, small arms fire began to ring out as mortar shells crashed down. When the attack was over, one Somali soldier …

The EU Has Been America’s “Foe” Since the End of the Old Cold War

July 23, 2018 Opinion

Trump turned heads this week when he described the EU as a “foe”. The “politically incorrect” and previously unthinkable remark came after last week’s testy NATO Summit during an interview that the US…