Inside Israel’s intelligence fiasco
Security failures allowed Hamas to launch its catastrophic attack on 7 October. Can the Israeli leadership overcome its fatal complacency?
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The EU is the “illusory giant” of geopolitics
Despite its wealth and ambition, the European Union is limited as an actor in the great conflicts of our time.
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Why we go to war
Two new studies of the evolution of warfare reveal the fragility of peace in a world ruled by irrational actors.
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The lessons of Algiers
Understanding Hamas’s attack as a barbarous act outside of history won’t help Israel in Gaza.
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The Hamas attack was driven by a brutal ideology
The atrocities committed against Israeli civilians have roots in the same fanaticism activists face in Iran.
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Requiem for a world war
Jeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo shows how four great 20th-century composers captured the horrors of conflict.
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The tragedy of John Mearsheimer
How the American realist became the world’s most hated thinker.
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Once again, the world turns away from Armenia
I feel history repeating itself as Azerbaijan bombs Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers redux
The 20th century’s most influential history book foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union and rise of China. Thirty-five years…
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The realists were right
As the much-hyped counteroffensive against Russian forces stalls, the West is asking hard questions about the war in Ukraine.
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Congressman Don Bacon: “Joe Biden does only enough to ensure the Ukrainians can keep a gridlock”
The Republican representative on waning support in the US Congress for aiding Ukraine.
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History offers Ukraine slender hope for a decisive victory
The wars between Finland and Soviet Russia in the 1940s hold lessons on how peace might be achieved today.
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Casualties of the counteroffensive
In the summer’s vicious fight for territory, Ukraine is suffering heavy losses. But wounded soldiers are determined to return to…
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Russia’s war on the future
Unable to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is targeting the next generation.
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George Kennan, loser
The American foreign policy sage was driven as much by pessimism about the US as antipathy to the Soviet Union.
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The West can no longer make war
Defence planners in Washington dream of a conflict with China – it’s not one the US can fight.
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What happens if the Russian state collapses?
The West yearns for Vladimir Putin to fall – yet this could trigger mayhem in Russia, and instability throughout Europe.
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The fake tsar
The truth is out there: there is no Russian state.
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The Kakhovka dam attack is just the beginning
As Kyiv launches its counter-offensive, both sides are escalating.
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The month of two D-Days
History will record this deed as an achievement of the highest order.
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