Trump’s Iran war is a fiasco. Undertaken without adequate planning by a president deaf to the advice of experts, there is no meaningful measure by which it can be categorized as successful. While ...

History's great powers rose on innovation, dominated through trade, then crumbled under peripheral wars. As US strikes on Iran escalate costs and nuclear risks, the familiar pattern emerges.

While teaching military history at the Air Force Academy, I noticed that many cadets saw war in simple terms, mainly as a matter of winning or losing. But war is ...

Those who favor the conflict with Iran and those who oppose it are each making a very large error.

If Trump and Netanyahu fail, it will be because they believed the Islamic Republic could be easily toppled and Hezbollah was ...

The Trump administration’s on-again, off-again goal of regime change in Iran has been made significantly more difficult.

It was a tense confirmation hearing for Mullin at a critical moment for Trump's Department of Homeland Security, which is ...

Our secretary of defense—who insists you call him secretary of war—is a deeply insecure man. We’ll be lucky to survive him.

By the time the cancer spreads and becomes incurable, the opportunity for prevention is gone. Preventive treatment is always ...

They called Afghanistan ‘the place where empires go to die,’ and Iran is very similar in that terrain. You put boots on the ground in Iran, and we're in for a lot of pain.” ...

History books love their heroes and villains. They fixate on grand battles, famous leaders, and turning points that everyone knows by heart. But tucked away in the margins are colossal blunders that ...

While others built theories about the triumph of values, the spread of democracy, and the civilising power of trade, John ...