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William KeenanThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” This 5th Century BCE admonition by the Chinese general...
When a President Threatens a Civilization with Destruction, We Need to Ask Some Very Serious Questions This morning, President Donald Trump posted on...
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. “There will be nothing...
The medium is Truth Social. The message is imperialism. “With a little time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A...
How a War We Did Not Choose Became a Crisis We Cannot Escape The United States entered the Iran conflict under circumstances that never persuaded most...
A Region Defined by Visibility Airborne early warning has always been the quiet backbone of stability in the Gulf. In a region shaped by dense air...
On the morning of March 2, 2026, according to a complaint later filed with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a combat-unit commander told...
The Strait of Hormuz has always been more than a narrow maritime passage. It is the point where multiple strategic ecosystems converge: NATO’s...
A Public Mood That Appears Steady—But Is Not Stable (poll by Quinnipiac) Twenty‑eight days into the conflict, U.S. public opinion has settled into...
Emerging Negotiation Landscape The New York Times continues to publish accounts, attributed to unnamed US officials, that Crown Prince Mohammed bin...
The Structural Limits of Wartime Alignment The current phase of the conflict has exposed a widening strategic and political divergence between...
“Sometimes you have to escalate before you can de-escalate.” U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent offered that line on Sunday as if escalation were a...
Israel’s Three Node Center of Gravity In classical military doctrine, a Center of Gravity is the source of power that provides moral or physical...
When a president declares war and then asks others to finish the job, the request tests not only military capacity but political legitimacy. Donald...
Truth: The First Casualty of War Accusations of disloyalty have always surfaced during wartime, especially when public support begins to fracture or...
When U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran began on February 28, President Trump told CNN that Gulf states “were going to be very little involved.”...
What was pitched as a two-to-four week kinetic operation intended to “finish the job” and produce rapid political effects has, by Day 15, lost...
Faith, Fact, and Friction: Assessing Chabad’s Role in Contemporary Geopolitics For decades, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement was best known to the...
Credibility: A Nation’s Most Critical Strategic Asset Vietnam is the cautionary tale that every strategist and political leader should carry in...
By Day 12 of the crisis, President Donald Trump faces a tightening set of strategic pressures shaped by an expanding regional conflict, fragile...
As a counterterrorism analyst who supported US European Command and the Pentagon, I worked inside the machinery of modern surveillance. I reviewed...
The Strait of Hormuz does not need to be formally closed to be strategically decisive. It is enough that it becomes dangerous. At its narrowest point,...
Operation Epic Fury: Manufactured Imminence and the Erosion of Strategic Credibility Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent explanation of...
Public support is not a peripheral variable in U.S. military operations; it is a structural constraint. In democratic systems, the initial level of...
The political fallout from the ongoing US–Israel strikes on Iran will likely hinge less on the tally of leaders killed or facilities damaged than on...
How Modern Powers Use Theology and Ideology to Create Cohesion and Justify Expansion Geopolitics is often explained through material variables —...
Recent reporting by Politico claimed that unnamed White House advisers viewed an Israeli first strike on Iran—followed by US intervention after...
The uproar surrounding US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s recent comments is not merely a diplomatic embarrassment; it is a revealing indicator...
The U.S.–Israel relationship is often analyzed through the familiar lenses of strategy, ideology, or shared democratic values. Yet some of the most...
Donald Trump’s Board of Peace debuted with the staging of a fully formed international institution: formal ceremony, assembled leaders, and a...
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