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James StavridisForeign Policy |
As always when a new presidential administration takes office, we are seeing a flurry of new names and faces set to take charge of important...
Each year, I read a stack of books to help me understand the world. As 2024 wraps up, I’m happy to share a few of the real treasures, and hopefully...
With the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, yet another vicious proxy of Iran has been defeated, his execrable regime in ruins. In the Gaza...
When I was a young Navy officer in the early 1980s aboard a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, the USS Valley Forge, we pulled into an...
Vladimir Putin is suffering grievous manpower losses as a result of his illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine. He has lost around 200,000 killed,...
We are at a dangerous precipice in the Middle East. Richard Haass, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, told me Wednesday that it...
Today Afghanistan is on a rocket ride to the ninth century. A victorious Taliban is imposing draconian restrictions on women — denying them...
This weekend, President Joe Biden is hosting the three other national leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, a loose grouping...
The Balkans are complicated. And the tendency is always to ignore those nations — until they erupt, as they have done reliably over recent...
A year into Israel’s fight against Hamas, it has become clear that the military “center of gravity” — the most important element of the...
Israel is at yet another strategic crossroads. The nation was viciously attacked last October by an implacable terrorist group. Its military...
Summer may be fading, but things are heating up in the South China Sea. With China claiming essentially the entire water space — which is half...
It has been close to a century since the last invasion of Russia by another sovereign power. That was Hitler’s Germany in June 1941, and it did...
I first met Nicolás Maduro about 15 years ago, when he was vice president of Venezuela — a lackey of the strongman Hugo Chávez — and I was...
On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu became the only foreign leader to address the US Congress four times, one more than Winston...
This month, there was an important gathering of major geopolitical actors in the capital of a founding member of their alliance, which is also a...
Ukraine was rightly the major focus at this week’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Washington. And as the meeting’s communiqué...