Heidi Urben & Peter Feaver, Foreign Affairs
How Colin Powell changed civil-military relations.
B. Bowman & A. Erdemir, FP
Growing military cooperation offers Washington a hedge against Ankara and Moscow.
Megan Gibson, New Statesman
As the country's currency falls and domestic opposition surges, Turkey's president deals with a diplomatic crisis of his own making.
James Durso, The Hill
If NATO had stuck around, Central and South Asia could have planned trade via a semi-stable Afghanistan, which would have made opportunities for Afghans. As it is, it's now up to local leaders to build trade links across Afghanistan when the governing body, the Taliban, isn't recognized by any other governments, including theirs (yet).
Bret Stephens, New York Times
Joe Biden needs a new national security team now.
Peter Morici, Washington Times
President Biden's foreign policy promises a return to multilateralism, but it looks more like Neville Chamberlain's appeasement with Russia and China than Winston Churchill's grand alliance.
Stavros Atlamazoglou, 1945
As the U.S. military is pivoting from counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations to near-peer warfare, the Russian military is once more a prime rival.
America Hernandez, Politico EU
Russian President Vladimir Putin is happily needling the EU over sky-high energy prices, but the bloc doesn't really have any instruments to force a change of behavior in Moscow.
David Pollock, Wash. Institute
Washington still has good cards to play in terms of Iran's destabilizing activities, the U.S. security umbrella over Gulf energy supplies, and Arab public opinion toward China and America.
Willow Berridge, ME Eye
Al-Burhan hopes to run an emasculated one-party system while the security and military apparatus, inherited from the old regime, rules de facto
Deutsche Welle
Turkey's president has adopted a more moderate tone in his recent diplomatic spat with Western ambassadors. The expulsion of 10 envoys now no longer seems likely.
Stavros Tzimas, Ekathimerini
Clashes between Albanians and Serbs in northern Kosovo, for the second time in a month, serve as a reminder that the most dangerous nationalist wound of the Balkan peninsula has not healed.
Thomas Shattuck, FPRI
Fifty years ago, members of the United Nations voted to expel the Republic of China (Taiwan) and admit the People's Republic of China with Resolution 2758. After the Kuomintang (KMT) fled China to Taiwan in 1949, countries around the world began to switch their formal diplomatic relations from Taipei to Beijing. Even though Chiang Kai-shek continued to rattle the KMT's saber by claiming that the people of China were clamoring for his return and toppling the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)... Читать дальше...
Stephen Blank, National Interest
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's trip to Georgia begs the question: if "America is back," as President Joe Biden says, why isn't it back in the Caucasus as well?
Daniel Baer, Foreign Policy
Europe and the United States were never going to be the reunited couple in a geopolitical rom-com.
Olivia Snaije, Newlines
How three Arab dictators shaped national identity and their own personality cults around their country's cultural heritage.
Economist
TWO BY TWO they roared into the sky over the Israeli desert—American F-16s, British Typhoons, French Rafales and more—to confront an unseen enemy called "Dragonland". The foes of wargames are fictitious. But in the minds of the hosts, the monster is real: Iran. Israeli officers were at pains to say the exercise was "generic". Yet Dragonland's force, with its drones and air-defence missiles, was akin to Iran's. Exercises to defeat it "are part of the capabilities that are needed to face Iran," noted one general. Читать дальше...
