Armed Conflicts

Haram al Sharif during the 1967 war

The Historians’ War Over the Six-Day War The Historians’ War Over the Six-Day War

Ever since 1967, writers have been debating the conflict.

Jun 5, 2017 / Guy Laron

Johnson and Eshkol 1968

The Israeli-American Hammer-Lock on Palestine The Israeli-American Hammer-Lock on Palestine

Israel’s occupation is only made possible by unquestioning US support—but a day of reckoning is on the way.

Jun 5, 2017 / Rashid Khalidi

Ariana Grande Manchester bombing

Ariana Grande Understands Counterterrorism Better Than Jim Mattis Ariana Grande Understands Counterterrorism Better Than Jim Mattis

Inclusiveness, not polarization, is the right approach.

May 31, 2017 / Juan Cole

Trump Boards Plane

Terrorism and the Perils of ‘Russiagate’ Terrorism and the Perils of ‘Russiagate’

As Trump and Putin strive for an essential US-Russia alliance against international terrorism, American media frenzy, fueled by anonymous leaks, continues to thwart it.

May 31, 2017 / Stephen F. Cohen

Patrol in El Chorrillo

How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega’s Panama Super-Charged US Militarism How the 1989 War on Manuel Noriega’s Panama Super-Charged US Militarism

It brought together neocons and realists in a warm-up act for the first Gulf War.

May 30, 2017 / Greg Grandin

Trump Saudi Arabia Speech

Our Embarrassment in Chief’s International Trip Is No Laughing Matter Our Embarrassment in Chief’s International Trip Is No Laughing Matter

Let’s not grade a guy holding the nuclear codes on a curve.

May 23, 2017 / Joshua Holland

Mattis and Nicholson

Trump Is Poised to Plunge Deeper Into the Afghan Quagmire Trump Is Poised to Plunge Deeper Into the Afghan Quagmire

More US troops cannot stabilize the corrupt and despised government in Kabul.

May 17, 2017 / Michael T. Klare

US Marine Afghanistan

The US Will Never Win the War in Afghanistan The US Will Never Win the War in Afghanistan

The military has no strategy for victory, merely a plan to avoid defeat.

May 16, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Tartus, Syria

In Tartous, Syria, Women Wear Black, Youth Are in Hiding, and Bitterness Grows In Tartous, Syria, Women Wear Black, Youth Are in Hiding, and Bitterness Grows

This Alawite city used to support the regime, but most now believe Assad cheated his own people by sending them into an endless, pointless war.

May 15, 2017 / Alimar Lazkani and Roy Gutman

Empire, Conquest, and the War America Forgot

Empire, Conquest, and the War America Forgot Empire, Conquest, and the War America Forgot

The historian William Hogeland talks about the first war the United States ever fought and the “problematic and thorny and painful” questions his new book raises.

May 15, 2017 / Interview / Richard Kreitner

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