Military force cannot substitute for political settlement, as the Iran campaign risks becoming another long open-ended U.S. deployment.
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Why does the world’s most powerful military keep losing wars? A fundamental mismatch of stakes and ambition holds the answer.
The White House accelerates its assault on global institutions, using sanctions and aid cuts to insulate American troops from global war crimes courts.
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the greatest peril comes not from bedroom-radicalized terrorists, but from populist world leaders wielding atomic arsenals.
Five years after withdrawal, the Afghanistan reckoning exposes how exaggerated terror fears trapped America in a costly war that ended in Taliban victory.
Multiple concurrent wars have systematically dismantled every alternative trade corridor, leaving Central Asia with no viable option except Russia’s war-torn Northern Route.
Iran war cuts Afghanistan’s Chabahar trade route. Pakistan border already closed. Famine looms as aid funding collapses and migrants flee.
The U.S. must view Iran through a Southwest Asian lens to manage nuclear proliferation and counter Chinese regional influence.
ISIS views the war as divinely sanctioned. Two US attacks since conflict began. Prison breaks and border conflicts enable territorial gains.
Trump’s demand to reclaim Bagram airbase is unlikely to succeed; China is deeply entrenched and the Taliban cites the Doha Agreement.