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Eliot A. Cohen

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Iran’s Attack Is Just One Campaign in a Much Larger Conflict

To understand what we are observing, we have to push out beyond the frame of what we at first see. My wife the photo archivist likes to point out that...

14.04.2024 30

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

Kyiv’s Grim Spring

If the United States doesn’t do anything, the coming seasons will be bleaker—and not just in Ukraine. Kyiv is, as ever, a lovely city, made more...

10.04.2024 20

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

Solzhenitsyn’s Warning

His excoriating critique of Western liberalism is more relevant than ever. While clearing out a storage room filled with books, I came across a slim...

20.02.2024 20

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

Zelensky Finds a General

Ukrainian General Valerii Zaluzhny had the second-most-difficult job in the world. His boss has the most difficult one. On Thursday, Ukrainian...

08.02.2024 4

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

The End of Denial

America’s segmented, limited, and naive policy approach toward Iran continues to fail. The U.S. needs to try something new. Sooner or later, it was...

29.01.2024 5

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

The Decatur Option

The U.S. knows how to put an end to attacks on shipping. Months after the first salvos of missiles from Yemen’s Houthi militias, the United States...

15.01.2024 40

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

When Leaders Fail

No state is immune from the horrors that have befallen Israel. “That film,” my friend Mick Ryan, a retired Australian general, said to me,...

04.01.2024 5

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

Harvard Has a Veritas Problem

President Claudine Gay is in a tough spot. The Harvard Corporation deserves to be in a much tougher spot. Like many alumni of Harvard, I have been...

22.12.2023 30

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

There Shall Be None to Make Him Afraid

The ideals I’m celebrating this Thanksgiving This Thanksgiving, three generations of my family will drink a champagne toast, eat the hors...

23.11.2023 30

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

Think Strategy, Not Tactics

If we wish to understand the war’s likely course, we must ask how both sides conceive their objectives and the broadest ways in which they intend to...

01.11.2023 5

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

Hands Off Shakespeare

Don’t bar the bard In this time of bipartisan acrimony, many on the left and on the right share one point of consensus: Shakespeare is a problem....

24.10.2023 9

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

Against Barbarism

We are in the fight of our lives There is a place for geopolitical and strategic analysis of Israel’s war with Hamas and its allies and...

12.10.2023 200

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

How Israel Will Adapt

The Israel Defense Forces' sin, like that of many political superiors, is hubris. The history of the Israel Defense Forces is a history of failure...

09.10.2023 9

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

Telling the Truth About Taiwan

On a recent visit, a series of conversations brought home to me just how pernicious our falsehoods have been. For some 50 years, American policy...

03.10.2023 40

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

Beware the False Prophets of War

Why have the experts been so persistently wrong? Prognosticating about war is always a chancy business. Even the most arrogant pundit or politician...

11.09.2023 10

The Atlantic

Eliot A. Cohen

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