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Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty Is the Destruction of Gaza Making Israel Any Safer?
More than five months in, Israel has neither a military strategy for eliminating Hamas nor a political strategy for living with Gaza.
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Micha Bar-Am / Magnum The Lessons Israel Should Have Learned in Lebanon
If Israel is going to have any strategic success against Hamas, it needs to do three things differently from conflicts past.
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Ahmed Zakot / SOPA / LightRocket / Getty Four Misconceptions About the War in Gaza
Disregard pundits searching for a deeper geopolitical meaning to this war.
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Ali Hashisho / Xinhua via Getty The Israeli Military Wasn’t Ready for This
The notion of an indomitable Israel Defense Forces is overdue for a revision.
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Dan Eldon / Reuters / Redux Our Special Forces’ Capacity to Evolve Despite Failure
The lesson 30 years on from the Battle of Mogadishu is that, with the right response, defeat can be a better tutor than victory.
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Raymond McCrea Jones / Redux America Needs Hunting More Than It Knows
But public sentiment is turning against it.
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Royal Court of Saudi Arabia / Anadolu Agency … The Israeli-Saudi Deal Had Better Be a Good One
Normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia would be a major breakthrough, but not at any price.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty A Gross Sense of Entitlement
Most public servants who move into the private sector do so honorably, but I’ve seen the minority who go money-grubbing.
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Eric Baradat / AFP; Fayez Nureldine / AFP … Biden Is Right About Saudi Arabia
The president is sacrificing his values in the interests of something we haven’t seen much of in the past two decades: realism.
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Win McNamee / Getty Putting Armed Veterans Into Schools Is Madness
Politicians need to stop turning to the military to solve every problem.
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Sergey Bobok / AFP / Getty Western Support for Ukraine Has Peaked
The honeymoon that Ukraine’s leaders have enjoyed with the West will not last.
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Didier Ruef / VISUM / Redux We Need to Learn to Live With Guns
A passive Congress and hostile judiciary leave Americans with little choice but to change the culture of firearms.
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Matthew Hatcher / SOPA / LightRocket / Getty The Russian Military Has Descended Into Inhumanity
The brutal war crimes being documented in Ukraine are a warning Americans should heed.
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Montinique Monroe / Getty I’m Freezing Cold and Burning Mad in Texas
The state’s power outages have revealed the difference between performative governance and actually governing.
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Samuel Corum / Getty Counterinsurgency Isn’t the Answer
Be wary of those who seek to apply the lessons of our campaigns abroad to our political challenges at home.
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Thaier Al-Sudani / Reuters Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man
The killing of Qassem Soleimani robs the regime of the central figure for its ambitions in the Middle East.
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Jason O'Brien / Reuters The Best Athlete Americans Have Never Heard Of
American pro athletes face pressure to stick to sports. Australia’s David Pocock has a different idea.
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Faisal Nasser / Reuters U.S. Arms Sales to the Gulf Have Failed
Despite spending billions of dollars on hardware, our regional partners don’t have the capabilities we need.
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Vanessa Gera / AP How to Really Honor the Troops
Thousands of soldiers have successfully led combat units without committing atrocities. Pardoning war crimes dishonors them.
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Maya Alleruzzo / AP / Katie Martin / … One Morning in Baghdad
Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion, there’s no satisfying answer to the question: What were we doing in Iraq anyway?
