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Since Benjamin Netanyahu, after being shown a map of a so-called “Greater Israel” during a television interview last year, voiced his support and sentimental attachment to the “historical and spiritual concept,” we have seen a series of additional statements and events pointing in the same…

The new war on Iran did not take anyone by surprise. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had openly laid the ground for it. While Netanyahu’s previous regional wars were justified under the banner of the “right to self-defense,” however, he was more explicit this time, invoking both the …

The assassination of the Supreme Leader was the most violent earthquake that could have hit Iran. Some believe it is even more devastating than the strike on the nuclear facilities or the major regional setbacks, like losing Syria after decades of dominance or losing the ability to station forces…

On March 5, France is going to pass the hat for Lebanon’s perennially broke military, hosting a fundraising conference for the Lebanese Armed Forces. But potential donor states - and especially the United States - should hesitate before opening their wallets. The LAF’s need is real. It faced…

As the world anxiously held its breath amid threats and rising tensions between Iran and the United States, the Russian-Ukrainian war entered its fifth year - a war with no end in sight. The combined number of casualties on both sides, according to recent reports by Western defense research centers…

The “Al-Aqsa Flood” war, the “support war,” and the fall of the Syrian regime were not just seismic events of war; they were also a momentous ideological event that brought down the militant narratives that had reigned over the region for decades. The Sunni Islamist ideology, through Hamas, was…

US President Donald Trump exposed the deep crisis of governance in Iraq with a tweet that threatened the future of the political system and paralyzed the towering figures of Iraqi politics. These partisan elites emerged, under exceptional conditions, as a result of the intersecting interests of…

Iran does not have many friends, neither in the region nor internationally. Amid American threats of war over the past couple of months, however, Iran’s neighbors have voiced a desire to see conflict averted, as well as fears that it could spread if it were to erupt. They have urged both sides to…

Then what? This is the question that theoreticians of war from Sun Tzu to Jomini and Liddell-Hart and passing by Clausewitz advise leaders to ask before they order the firing of the first shot in a war. Thus, one may suggest that US President Donald Trump should also ask that question before,…

Four years have passed since the Russian–Ukrainian war began. Its protagonists could hardly have imagined it would last this long. Those who launched it in Russia believed it would be resolved in a matter of days, but days turned into weeks, weeks into months, and months into years. Although…

Everything about the trip of Rapid Support Forces Commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) to Kampala at the end of last week appeared carefully staged and meticulously choreographed, both the form and content. From the flashy outfits to his meeting with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, to his…

A new Iran means an Iran different from the one we have known for four decades. Perhaps a modern civilian system could emerge, or the current system itself but with different policies, moving toward openness, including toward the West, ending its status as a “state of war” and engaging in political…