Obama foiled Netanyahu’s attempt to browbeat Washington into war. But the White House needs a new strategic approach.

What role and responsibility does the United States have for the situation in Yemen?

It would intensify the civil conflict and provoke a dangerous proxy war with Russia.

American decline in perspective, part two.

The Pentagon’s Afghan basing plans for prisons, drones and black ops.

What makes drones so frightening to us now, when they have actually been around for decades?

Obama’s abandonment of patient diplomacy—combined with Israel’s bellicose demands—has pushed us dangerously close to conflict.

What if the role of the new US special operations team at work near Iran were reversed?

The Obama administration's alternatives to large-scale military operations are, in some ways, far more drastic and dangerous for US interests around the globe.

Following the money in the Iran crisis.