1+ week, 3+ day ago   (284+ words) “Snow has fallen on the mountains you dreamed of.” The Kurdish question has long been the opposition’s “kryptonite.” The Republican People’s Party risks accusations of negotiating with terrorists when it courts Kurdish support, but it cannot assemble a governing coalition…...

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2+ week, 5+ day ago   (252+ words) The Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity is not operating yet, and engineering surveys in Armenia are only now underway. Today’s arteries still run through Georgia, whose relations with Washington and Brussels have deteriorated sharply, while the Turkish-Armenian border…...

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3+ week, 3+ day ago   (270+ words) To mitigate this cycle of vulnerability, this article recommends the U.S. Navy tailor solutions to each specific phase of the deployment cycle (i.e., pre-deployment, at-sea support, and post-deployment in homeport). Specifically, the Navy engaged in a dual-track approach focused on shore-based issues…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (219+ words) Yet American leaders are dragging their feet in reckoning with this undeniable technological transition. Many of the electrotech components defining this shift are associated with either Beijing or maligned as belonging to the climate movement, slowing their adoption. This transformation…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (143+ words) Afshon Ostovar, one of the leading experts on Iran and the host of the members-only podcast The Iran Reckoning, is joined by War on the Rocks membership editor Kerry Anderson for a state-of-play conversation on the conflict between the United…...

4+ week, 8+ hour ago   (194+ words) Editor’s Note: The following article draws on themes from the author’s forthcoming book titled US Counterterrorism Operations in Afghanistan: Jackpots, Dry Holes, and Collateral Damage. The upcoming milestones of the Afghanistan withdrawal and the attacks of 9/11 should be national moments…...