Sabine Beppler-Spahl, Spiked
German farmers have begun a week of nationwide demonstrations, blocking roads with tractors in protest against government plans to phase out agricultural...
Burcu Ozcelik, The National Interest
The Lebanese para-military may hesitate before gambling away its remaining leverage over Lebanon through reckless retaliation against Israel.
Noah Berman, CFR
Since mid-November 2023, the Yemen-based, Iran-backed Houthi rebel group has attacked dozens of commercial ships in the Red Sea, with no signs of slowing down. An exodus of...
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, Daily Beast
Iranian and Arab pundits, both radical and moderate (on state-run TV), seem to have reached...
Joe Buccino, RealClearDefense
The news that the U.S. Department of Defense failed to inform the American public that its Secretary of Defense was hospitalized in Walter Reed for four days...
Menon & DePetris, The Guardian
So far the risks of the horrific Gaza crisis escalating to a wider war...
Sabine Kinkartz, DW
German voters are pessimistic about the country's prospects for the new year. Few believe that the federal government can change anything for the...
Michael Cunningham, RealClearWorld
Taiwan's presidential candidates have entered their final stretch ahead of this month's election. The outcome of the January 13 contest will play a crucial...
John Lloyd, UnHerd
Of the torrent of elections scheduled throughout the world this year, the most transformative promises to span an entire continent. In all of the 27 nations which...
Ian Parmeter, Asia Times
The 19th-century German war strategist and field marshal Helmuth von Moltke famously coined the aphorism "No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy." His...
Francis Sempa, RealClearDefense
Former national security adviser Robert O'Brien, writing in National Review, warns about the "dire state of America's Navy relative to China's."...
Tom Nichols, The Atlantic
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was hospitalized this week, and apparently, the president of the United States didn't know about...
Gordon Fairclough, Wall Street Journal
Israel's defense minister, Yoav Gallant, said the scale and severity of the Oct. 7 assault on Israel by Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas...
Boaz Ganor, Times of Israel
Did Israel fall into Iran's trap in going after its weaker proxy, Hamas, while the stronger strategic Hezbollah remains nearly unscathed?
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