Eight months post-June 2025 Twelve-Day War, the Middle East lingers in armed stability: exhaustion and uncertainty, neither peace nor war. Israel's surprise strikes destroyed 35-45% of Iran's ballistic missile stockpile and eliminated key military leaders. The United States bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. Iran retaliated with over 550 ballistic missiles and 1,000 suicide drones targeting … Continue reading The Structural Trap: How Iran’s Degraded Deterrence Heightens Escalation Risk Without a Clear Path to War
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America’s Misadventures in the Middle East
"U.S. wars in the Middle East are—without exception—wars of choice. These wars have proven ruinously expensive and injurious to the civil liberties of Americans. They have poisoned American political culture with various manifestations of xenophobia. Islamophobia has transitioned naturally to anti-Semitism and other forms of racism and bigotry. In the region itself, American military interventions … Continue reading America’s Misadventures in the Middle East
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