While discussions of Iran’s growing strategic threat focus almost exclusively on its nuclear capabilities, Tehran’s massive ballistic missile arsenal poses a clear and present danger in the region as well… Read more
Has Obama’s Syria policy backfired?… Continue reading
On the issues about which the world is obsessed, Israel’s new government is basically a continuation of the old one… Continue reading
Islamists will intimidate anyone who let them intimidate… Continue reading
The Hagel issue is the perfect symbol of the dilemmas faced by America today… Continue reading
Turkey’s membership in NATO has many unique dimensions, including in the number of missile-related crises the country has experienced… Continue reading
Naturally the question of who won any given war preoccupies people’s minds… Continue reading
From day one, Operation Pillar of Defense has been casually portrayed by the Western media as politically motivated due to the upcoming Israeli elections in January 2013. Barry Rubin explains why this claim isn’t an accurate analysis of the current situation… Continue reading
After Syria’s downing of a Turkish aircraft over the eastern Mediterranean, the question is not so much why Syria shot it down as why the two neighbors have become embroiled in a confrontation in the first place… Continue reading
NATO’s May 20-21 heads-of-state summit in Chicago reminded everyone how Turkey is making important contributions to NATO in many key areas… Continue reading
What do you tell soldiers who are risking their lives on Middle East battlefields about the people they are fighting for and against simultaneously?… Continue reading
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has just completed a well-timed visit to Washington… Continue reading
Much written and said about the Middle East has always been fantasy. And number one on that list is the war hysteria with Iran… Continue reading
Labor MK Ephraim Sneh sees military action against Iran’s nuclear program as only a last resort… Continue reading
Israel sees Iran as the primary threat to its security and sees the enrichment cycle as the “point of no return” for Tehran’s nuclear weapons program… Continue reading
Tehran this week hardened its nuclear and military policies in defiance of tougher sanctions and ahead of international nuclear talks… Continue reading
There is a strong case that can be made for doing nothing about the Syrian civil war, but a stronger case can be made for doing something… Continue reading
That Athens controls this wisp of land implies it could claim an exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean Sea that reduces the Turkish EEZ to a fraction of what it would be were the island under Ankara’s control… Continue reading
By agreeing to deploy the Army Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance System (AN/TPY-2) on Turkish soil, the United States and Turkey have concluded by far the strategically most significant agreement in many years… Continue reading
With its latest acquisitions from Washington and Europe, the Saudi Air Force will have more fighter-bombers of more advanced models that the Israeli Air Force… Continue reading
The radio superhero, The Shadow, had the power to “cloud men’s minds.” But nothing clouds men’s minds like anything that has to do with Jews or Israel… Continue reading
Three weeks after Tehran threatened action against any US aircraft carrier entering the Strait of Hormuz… Continue reading
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not the Obama administration, decided to call off the biggest ever joint US-Israeli military exercise… Continue reading
US-Israeli discord over action against Iran went into overdrive when the White House called off the biggest joint war game the US and Israel have ever staged… Continue reading
The Pentagon is substantially building up its combat power around Iran… Continue reading
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Hello Mike, Thank you for your positive feedback to the article. I felt there wasn’t too much critical analysis of ...
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THE CLUELESSNESS OF CLAIMING THAT OBAMA'S MIDDLE EAST POLICIES WERE A FAILURE CANNOT BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH, WHAT THE...
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