4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1209+ words) Collective-defense pacts are meant to make war less likely. Poorly designed ones can do the opposite. If allies make sweeping promises without the military integration, decision-making mechanisms, and escalation controls needed to carry them out, they may invite adversaries to…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (375+ words) When Israeli warplanes struck the Abu al-Duhur airbase in Syria on Aug. 18, 2026, the smoke rose over the demolition of an old geopolitical assumption about the Middle East. This time, Israel directly targeted a strategic sphere of influence where the Turkish…...

1+ week, 2+ 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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3+ week, 3+ 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…...