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The US-led Western war on terror toppled the Taliban regime in 2001, but continued for two decades. The United States reportedly spent $2 trillion on the war effort and lost 2,400 American troops.
Israel’s accelerating drive toward a biblical 'Greater Israel' is not a deviation but the culmination of decades of creeping annexation and global indulgence.
The task is not to choose between deterrence and dialogue, nor between international partnerships and regional agency. A stable regional order is likely to require all of these elements.
Israel’s West Bank settlements have long attracted condemnation. Now twelve friendly nations are preparing to move beyond words - and Netanyahu has noticed.
From a Chinese strategic perspective, as one analyst put it, Australia is less a host of US bases than a US base in its own right, a significant piece of real estate in America’s Pacific warfighting architecture.
150 million people live on Java, the most heavily populated island in the world. A the consequences of a volcanic disaster for them wouldn't be confined to Indonesia.
Comparative conflict analysis reveals clear conditions under which weaker actors concede. The Palestinian case meets none of them, underscoring Israel’s strategic futility in expecting capitulation in the absence of a political settlement.
