Essays February 2026

Why Italy Is the Strategic Anchor of US Policy in the Mediterranean

As the United States reassesses its military posture in Europe and shifts strategic bandwidth toward the Indo-Pacific, it...
Essays February 2026

Libya and the Return of Strategic Leadership in the Mediterranean

Libya: A Strategic Mediterranean Crossroads at the center of the Mediterranean corridor linking Europe, Africa, and the...
Essays February 2026

Europe: Stuck in the Twenty-first Century

The twentieth century was initially the worst of times and then the best of times for Europe.  In that century’s first...
Essays February 2026

The Real Iran Problem

For almost five decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has survived sustained American pressure not through strength,...
Essays February 2026

American Security Interests in Asia

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took a calculated gamble to call for elections only four months into her...
Editorials February 2026

Iran at the Edge: Pressure, Transition, and the Responsibility of Clarity

Maximum Pressure Is a Strategy — Not a Spectacle In a recent interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News, Reza Pahlavi —...
Strategic Affairs February 2026

Marco Rubio at Munich: Sovereignty, Deterrence, and the Strategic Recalibration of the West

At the 62nd Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a speech that signaled not merely...
JST Situation Room February 2026

The Middle East Is Now a Live-Fire Test of American Maritime Deterrence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbjUEBLN3K8 This analysis was written by Admiral James G. Foggo — Dean of the...
Essays February 2026

America Pivots Away From Syria’s Kurds

A decade ago, as it sought to strengthen its campaign against the Islamic State in Syria, the United States adopted the...
Essays February 2026

The Middle East Is Now a Live-Fire Test of American Maritime Deterrence

The Middle East is no longer a peripheral conflict. It is an active battlespace in which U.S. naval power, global...

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