Why try to pretend that this should be taken seriously? Second, it's not just about drugs. The Venezuelan alliance is almost a classic geopolitical attempt to deny the US access to Latin America -- probably including Mexico -- and to gain access to our southern...
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On Friday and Saturday, the Patterson School conducted its annual policy simulation. This year, Patterson students simulated the 22 hours following an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, with a.
Kroenig, via Yglesias:The United States’ global power-projection capability provides Washington with a significant strategic advantage: It can protect, or threaten, Iran and any other country on the planet. An Iranian.
(1)If Massoud Ali Mohammadi was killed by the Iranian government because he was reportedly sympathetic to opponents of it, would that terrorism?(2) If on the other hand he was working an an atomic weapons program for the Iranian government, and was as a consequence quietly...
Check out this (somewhat dated) article on Israeli missile defenses. The article makes the point that Israel's missile defenses have progressed to the point that even a concerted Iranian ballistic.
Jeffrey Herf has taken to The New Republic in an effort to convince Americans that negotiations will go nowhere unless we threaten Tehran with an extensive bombing campaign. Herf is.
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, via Phil Korsnes:if Iran is as close to nuclear capability as it is claimed, it should have a strong interest in non-proliferation. Making it difficult for a newcomer to join the nuclear club would enhance the value of its own potential membership and...
It's hard to say how to take this long post on the Iranian ballistic missile program; there's a lot of detail, but where evidence is not openly available conclusions are.
Anyone hyping the EMP threat ought to be laughed out of public life...
Bernard Finel handles the latest attack-Iran nonsense capably, but I'd like to supplement three points:Fabius Maximus refers to General Wald's post as part of a "years long project to start a war with Iran." That's true enough, but it's also clear that General Wald envisions...
John Boonstra, responding to Paul Johnson:What we don't know is if a successful Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would discredit the regime to the point that it would be.
Speaking of Chiang Kai Shek, I have a short article up at Foreign Policy comparing the Chinese and (purported) Iranian nuclear weapon programs:Even the Soviet bloc worried that the Chinese.