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Good to Know: Preemptive strikes

Stacie Goddard - September 25, 2024

Israel has gone on the offensive, targeting Hezbollah.

Good to Know: The offense-defense balance

Stacie Goddard - August 20, 2024

The technology and tactics behind Ukraine's August 2024 offensive into Russian territory.

Good to Know: The spiral vs. deterrence model in international relations

Stacie Goddard - January 29, 2024

Will Iran’s strike and Israel’s retaliation lead to war?

Apparently, Trump ignored early coronavirus warnings. That has consequences.

Michael Poznansky - March 22, 2020

Other presidents distrusted their intelligence teams — often with dire results.

So Trump’s meeting Kim Jong Un after all. Here’s why face-to-face diplomacy matters.

Marcus Holmes and Keren Yarhi-Milo - June 11, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-tells-north-korea-us-and-allies-are-more-ready-than-ever/2018/05/24/46089692-5f6c-11e8-b656-236c6214ef01_video.html Editor’s note: This post originally ran on May 24,

The big problem with the North Koreans isn’t that we can’t trust them. It’s that they can’t trust us.

- August 16, 2017

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With Trump leaving on his first foreign trip, here are 4 lessons about face-to-face diplomacy

Nicholas Wheeler and Marcus Holmes - May 19, 2017

On May 19, 2017, President Trump departs on his first

After the political science relevance revolution

Marc Lynch - March 23, 2016

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The danger of (mis)perceptions after the Iran deal

Mohammad Tabaar - August 3, 2015

[caption id="attachment_28151" align="aligncenter" width="620" class="align center "] Iranian Foreign Minister

Think of Russia as an ordinary petrostate, not an extraordinary superpower

Maria Snegovaya - March 9, 2015

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