By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos on Mar 11, 2025 06:40 am Amid all of the violence on the Syrian coast this week, there was one development Monday that may reduce the chaos in the northeast: the new Sunni leadership has struck a deal with the Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Forces to merge with the central government in Damascus. Read in browser »
By Dan Grazier on Mar 10, 2025 12:05 am Many of the national security establishment’s leading voices say America’s military needs to rapidly modernize by embracing the digital future through adopting Artificial Intelligence, network-centric warfare, and uncrewed weapons. Read in browser »
By Anatol Lieven on Mar 10, 2025 12:05 am The Trump administration’s suspension of military aid and intelligence to Ukraine has some justification, but also involves serious dangers. Read in browser »
By Anatol Lieven on Mar 07, 2025 04:09 pm If the foreign policy of the Trump administration has done nothing else, it has certainly succeeded in depriving many members of the Washington and European foreign and security establishments of their wits. Talk is rife of the U.S. “leaving NATO,” of the “end of the global order,” of a “new Yalta agreement,” and so on. None of this is true. Read in browser »
By Elizabeth Beavers on Mar 06, 2025 12:05 am In yet another example of Donald Trump announcing new policy via social media, the president has now pledged to crack down on “illegal protests” at universities, warning that “agitators” will be headed to jail or targeted for deportation. Read in browser »
By Gideon Pardo on Mar 06, 2025 12:05 am On Sunday, U.S. Central Command announced that it had recently killed two people linked to Al-Qaeda in Idlib, Syria. One of the men, Wasim Tahsin Bayraqdar, was reportedly the brother of a current Syrian government minister. U.S. Central Command identified the other man as a “senior military leader of al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din.” Read in browser »
Amid all of the violence on the Syrian coast this week, there was one development Monday that may reduce the chaos in the northeast: the new Sunni leadership 
Many of the national security establishment’s leading voices say America’s military needs to rapidly modernize by embracing the digital future through adopting Artificial Intelligence, network-centric warfare, and uncrewed weapons.
The Trump administration’s 
If the foreign policy of the Trump administration has done nothing else, it has certainly succeeded in depriving many members of the Washington and European foreign and security establishments of their wits. Talk is rife of the U.S. “leaving NATO,” of the “end of the global order,” of a “new Yalta agreement,” and so on. None of this is true.
In yet another example of Donald Trump announcing new policy 