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Russia: Trying A Little Tenderness
Strategy Page· 6 days agoJanuary 19, 2021: Russia continued its post-Cold War decline in 2020 and covid19 played a minor role. The space program continued to shrink with fewer satellites put into orbit. The ceasefire ...
Syria: Changing The Rules
Strategy Page· 3 days agoApril 18, 2018: The Syrian government considers the loss of their chemical weapons facilities a minor setback. Russia or Iran will pay to have the facilities replaced. Meanwhile the April 7 ...
Israel: Use It And Lose It
Strategy Page· 1 day agoJune 5, 2018: Germany openly called for Iran to withdraw its forces from Syria. This rare criticism of Iran was caused by Israel pointing out that the presence of Iranian ...
Syria: Disintegration
Strategy Page· 5 days agoJune 13, 2023: There continues to be less fighting in Syria despite the continued presence of numerous mutually antagonistic groups in many parts of the country. Most of the ...
Israel: The War With Iran
Strategy Page· 13 hours agoMay 8, 2018: The Mossad operation in January that got half a ton of top-secret Iranian nuclear weapons program documents out of Iran and back to Israel in less than 24 hours has provided Iranian ...
Israel: Unnatural Acts
Strategy Page· 3 days agoMarch 2, 2021: Recent Israeli airstrikes near Damascus (the Syrian capital) were apparently retaliation for the attack on an Israeli-owned ship in the Persian Gulf two days ...
Russia: Monetizing Misery And Broken Promises
Strategy Page· 6 days agoNovember 12, 2021: In Syria Russia is openly siding with Israel and Syria against Iran and, less frequently, Turkey. Israeli willingness to accept the Assad ...
A combat controller earned a secret Air Force Cross for battle with Russian mercenaries
Task & Purpose· 6 days agoAn Air Force combat controller dodged bullets, artillery shells and even direct fire from enemy tanks as he coordinated U.S. firepower against an oncoming battalion of Russian
The U.S. Needs a New Purpose in the Middle East
Foreign Policy Magazine· 6 days agoRefugee Agency. The camp, which had been decommissioned in 2017, had reopened in the fall after Syrian Kurds fled to Iraq seeking safety from Turkish ...
AP News Summary at 6:17 a.m. EDT
The Longview News-Journal· 2 days agoPresident Joe Biden will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris as Kyiv’s army endures its hardest days of fighting since the early weeks of the Russian