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Max Boot

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Iran’s nuclear program is damaged — not ‘obliterated’

26.06.2025 10

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Iran brought this war on itself

22.06.2025 30

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The risks and benefits of bombing Fordow. Spoiler alert: It’s a close call.

19.06.2025 50

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How does the Israel-Iran conflict end?

18.06.2025 40

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I was worried about Trump’s Army parade — until I saw it

16.06.2025 100

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Israel’s attack on Iran underscores Trump’s failures as a peacemaker

14.06.2025 70

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Trump is playing with fire by deploying troops to Los Angeles

10.06.2025 100

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Why are the Knicks firing a winning coach?

06.06.2025 20

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We are witnessing the suicide of a superpower

04.06.2025 7

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Ukraine just rewrote the rules of war

02.06.2025 200

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Putin is playing Trump for a fool, and Trump doesn’t seem to realize it

20.05.2025 100

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Here’s the most dangerous concession to Putin in Trump’s peace plan

26.04.2025 100

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Trump’s emerging foreign policy is a disturbing 19th-century throwback

08.04.2025 90

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Trump just imposed the largest tax hike since 1942 without congressional approval

05.04.2025 200

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Putin is playing Trump and Witkoff like a Stradivarius

28.03.2025 100

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The real scandal: Those chatty Trump officials’ loathing of U.S. allies

27.03.2025 70

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Trump’s bullying is turning Canada from friend to foe

22.03.2025 80

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Trump is ending democracy promotion abroad even as he assaults democracy at home

17.03.2025 80

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Putin doesn’t want a ceasefire in Ukraine. He still wants to win.

14.03.2025 7

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The most startling U-turn in the history of U.S. foreign policy

11.03.2025 100

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Unable to count on the U.S. anymore, Europe needs its own army

04.03.2025 10

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Could Ukraine keep fighting even without U.S. support?

25.02.2025 70

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Trump and Hegseth’s Pentagon purge undermines the armed forces

24.02.2025 100

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While Musk dismantles a pro-democracy group, America’s enemies cheer

19.02.2025 8

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U.S. soft power took decades to build. Trump is dismantling it in weeks.

04.02.2025 10

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Trump’s ‘Iron Dome’ is a fantasy. But there are practical options.

30.01.2025 10

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Why McKinley makes an alarming Trump presidential role model

26.01.2025 60

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Biden is getting hostages out of Gaza. Can Trump finally end the war?

16.01.2025 10

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The U.S. is unprepared for a major war. Can Pete Hegseth fix that?

14.01.2025 80

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Biden’s U.S. Steel move blots his far-from-stainless trade record

07.01.2025 6

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How to respond to Russia’s hybrid war on the West? Hybrid counterattack.

01.01.2025 70

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Russia has a history of downing passenger planes — and covering it up

A decade ago, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, went down over a portion of eastern Ukraine controlled by...

29.12.2024 90

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Iran has been weakened. Is the time right for a Trump-Tehran deal?

20.12.2024 7

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A Russian general’s killing in Moscow points to a worrying trend

A year ago, the online publication Task & Purpose counted at least seven Russian generals killed during the war in Ukraine. In Western countries,...

20.12.2024 6

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New Jersey needs to get a grip. But our drone defenses need work.

Mass hysteria is a recurring feature of American life. In 1938, it was about an alien invasion — sparked by Orson Welles’s radio drama “The War...

14.12.2024 5

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The 10 days that shook the Middle East

The historian’s occupational hazard is giving the impression that what happened must have happened, that the march of events was inevitably leading...

08.12.2024 7

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Aleppo’s sudden fall reveals stark realities in Syria

The Syrian civil war began in 2011 and never really ended. The fighting has claimed about half a million lives and forcibly displaced more than...

05.12.2024 20

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Netanyahu reached a cease-fire with Hezbollah. Why not with Hamas?

The cease-fire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel is being touted by right-wing admirers of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as...

28.11.2024 10

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Is the U.S. military too ‘woke’ to win wars? Hardly.

23.11.2024 60

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Why Trump’s Hegseth nomination for defense is a danger to the U.S. military

16.11.2024 70

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How Trump the dealmaker can broker peace in Ukraine

During his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised, as one of his first orders of business, to end the war in Ukraine. “I will get that...

12.11.2024 9

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Moldovan voters thwart Putin’s designs. But what happens if Trump wins?

05.11.2024 4

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Another Trump term risks a major civilian-military crisis

Israel-Iran hostilities. North Korean troops getting ready to fight Ukraine. Chinese military exercises around Taiwan. Suspected Russian sabotage...

30.10.2024 20

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Israel is trying to uproot Iran’s influence. Iraq shows how hard that is.

Having killed two of its leading enemies — Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar and Hezbollah’s Hasan Nasrallah — Israel is expanding its military ambitions in the...

28.10.2024 6

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Israel strikes back against Iran. The Mideast is at maximum danger.

27.10.2024 10

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The election is a referendum on America’s role in the world

American voters tend be pretty parochial in their approach to elections, focusing on domestic issues above all. I’m not sure if enough of them are...

21.10.2024 10

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There is no purely military solution to Israel’s security woes

Little more than a year ago, on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel suffered arguably the second-biggest intelligence and military failure in its history (after...

11.10.2024 20

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As drone tech zooms ahead, the Pentagon scrambles to adapt

09.10.2024 20

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Hasan Nasrallah is gone. But the threat of Hezbollah remains.

29.09.2024 10

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A ground war against Hezbollah would be another quagmire for Israel

If you want to see how nations can stumble into wars without end, the ongoing (and rapidly escalating) conflict between Israel and Hezbollah...

27.09.2024 10

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