Trump accepted that Iran was not Iraq. Few argue that our experiment of imposing a democratic government on Islamic nations ...

The failures of a foreign technocratic nation-building project turned many Americans into cynics and panic-mongers. Trump ...

The risk of a spiraling conflagration that pulls the U.S. in deeper flies in the face of Trump’s own rhetoric about righting ...

Trump, in his less diplomatic style, has repeated Biden’s warning, albeit in much more colorful language. He told reporters ...

President Trump is pondering swift military action in Iran. There were similar expectations that the war in Iraq would be ...

This is mostly false. In August 2004, Trump said in an interview with Esquire that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein never had weapons of mass destruction at his disposal. But he made more ambiguous ...

Importantly, the president understands that a superpower doesn't act terrified when threatened. Others should be terrified of ...

Though portrayed as an anti-interventionist, he has no problem with war—as long as America gets something in return. Now he’s ...

Donald Trump’s recent decision to order strikes against Iran has seen him adopting the neoconservative vision of reshaping the Middle East through military power, and he must now see this ...

President Trump accused Israel and Iran of violating a ceasefire, but then said it was "in effect" after a phone call with ...

The U.S. spy chief, who built her political identity opposing military intervention, is falling in line after the bombing of ...