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The ‘New Middle East’ That Awaits Donald Trump
President-elect Donald Trump will face a much-changed Middle East — marked by two wars, a weaker Iran, and emerging tech ...
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Martin Petersen’s Shanghai: A Garden of Many Delights
By Martin Petersen/Earnshaw Books Ltd. Reviewed by Kenneth Dekleva. The Reviewer – Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a ...
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Pete Hegseth’s Views of the Military – and the World
That was Peter Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Secretary of Defense, during an extensive two-hour interview on the Shawn Ryan Show and Podcast that was taped prior to the ...
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Memo to the 47th President: There’s a Way Forward on North Korea
A memo to President-elect Donald Trump advising him on how to approach North Korea in his second administration.
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Inside Iran’s Alleged Plots to Kill Donald Trump
For years, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has tried and failed at all sorts of half-baked schemes to ...
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Lessons from Israel’s Tale of Two Fronts
It is a tale of two fronts: a horrific intelligence failure to the south, and in the north a stunning intelligence success.
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Memo to the 47th President: The Psychology of America’s Adversaries Matters
President-elect Donald Trump must be smart in how he deals with the authoritarian leaders of the world in his second term.
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Dead Drop: November 22
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Undersea Sabotage Threatens Cables Connecting the World
The severing of Baltic undersea cables shows the growing threats to a critical piece of communications infrastructure.