Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In a little-noticed move, Congress used the FY26 defense bill to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Iraq Authorizations for...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-14 Tomcat, iconic in U.S. Navy service, actually saw its most intense combat not with America, but in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The “Package Q” air raid over Baghdad in 1991, the largest F-16 mission in history, serves as a critical...
The Treaty
BAGHDAD, IRAQ—When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Iraq’s population was 26 million; today, it is approaching 48 million. Any visit to Iraq...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Israel has a long and consistent history of launching preemptive military strikes to destroy the nuclear programs of hostile...
The Treaty
Key Points and Summary: Prospects for US-Iran diplomatic talks appear doomed to fail as President Trump’s “bottom line” for a deal—the complete dismantling of...
The Treaty
Key Points – The Iranian regime’s “extreme hubris,” born from decades of surviving revolution, a grueling war with Iraq, and successfully sponsoring regional proxies,...
The Treaty
The Kurds often quip they have “no friends but the mountains,” an allusion to how both neighbors and great powers victimize them. This may...
The Treaty
Will Iraq Take Over “Resistance”? Is Baghdad Ready? Israel’s strike on Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s long-time leader, left a void at the group’s top. While...