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How Iran Lost

Tehran’s Hard-Liners Squandered Decades of Strategic Capital and Undermined Deterrence

 By Afshon Ostovar

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Israel’s Futile Air War

Precision Strikes Will Not Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program—or Its Government

By Robert A. Pape

Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad

American Foreign Policy in an Age of Unrestrained Executive Power

By Elizabeth N. Saunders

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India’s Great-Power Delusions

How New Delhi’s Grand Strategy Thwarts Its Grand Ambitions

By Ashley J. Tellis

Why Putin Still Fights

The Kremlin Will End Its War in Ukraine Only When It Knows That Victory Is Impossible

By Lawrence D. Freedman

Don’t Betray “America First” With a War on Iran

Trump Should Support—but Not Join—Israel’s Fight

By Reid Smith

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