America Is Winning Against China in Oceania
There is less to Beijing’s security gains in the Pacific than meets the eye.
The latest parliamentary election blocked needed change in the oil-rich nation.
As the United States leaves Afghanistan, the question of troops in the Middle East to support the Afghan mission looms large.
In the 1980s, the United States embraced a brutal Middle Eastern tyrant simply because he opposed Iran. Washington should not repeat the same mistake today.
The showdown with Qatar is forcing all Middle Eastern countries to pick sides — and leaving two of them in the lurch.
By trading geopolitical importance for aid and showing restraint when unrest erupts, the kingdom has managed to remain stable for decades.
A U.S. military vendor created a “ghost structure” to do business with Iran, yet the dollars keep rolling in.
There’s a very familiar method to the administration’s apparent regional madness.
The $30 billion pledged toward reconstruction in Iraq was more than some expected, but still short of the total needed to rebuild the country.
The best course of action is for Washington to take a back seat to Kuwait’s efforts to negotiate an end to the Gulf impasse.
The White House can’t decide whether to sign off on a multibillion-dollar arms deal with the Persian Gulf kingdom, a sometime ally that has close ties to Islamist militants and Iran.
25 years after Desert Storm, America still hasn’t learned why it’s so difficult to win wars overseas.
Four years since the crisis began, aid organizations are struggling to drum up funds for suffering Syrians.
A group is looking to erect a monument to those who served in Desert Storm.