Victoria Coates outlines the White House's strong foundation for ongoing efforts to encourage change in Iran's behavior without the need of an intervening war. [...]

Does no one in Congress understand the strategic stakes in Yemen for America and our allies? Concern for the suffering people in Yemen is reasonable, but there are ways to pursue that short of cutting off American support to our allies. [...]

The reason Qatar supports Islamist movements that threaten regimes like their own is that they have much more to fear from the righteous anger of their slaves. [...]

Whether or not America is bound for a period of a self-imposed global retrenchment or withdrawal remains to be seen--even if the beneficiaries of such a development have been clearly articulated. [...]

Any peace plan or proposal that would complicate the current rapprochement between Israel and its Arab neighbors is counterproductive, not only to US strategic interests, but to those of our allies as well.  [...]

Secretary of State Pompeo just returned from a trip across the Middle East and one of his stops was in Qatar. He announced a number of initiatives including an expansion of al-Ubeid Air Base where the US has a major contingent. What was not mentioned was Qatar’s continued support for terrorism or its many other malign activities throughout the region or their effects on the US and our interests. [...]

Few in London or Washington foresaw Argentina’s attack on the Falkland Islands. As China’s economy contracts, President Xi may come to believe that only military action can save him. [...]

The French, British, German, Danish, Dutch, and Belgian diplomats in the Iranian foreign ministry room had incensed the officials with a message that Europe could no longer tolerate ballistic missile tests in Iran and assassination plots on European soil, according to four EU diplomats. [...]

A recent incident involving a group of kids from Covington Catholic High School and some protestors at the Lincoln Memorial was a textbook example of creating a false narrative using a false victim in order to achieve ideological or political ends. [...]