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The Taliban is now facing a civil war with the Islamic State in Afghanistan. It's going to be a long one.

France is in grand furie over the Australian nuclear submarines. Of course it's our fault.

An argument for a humanitarian foreign policy.

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside of enigma." It still is, but it may not be our riddle.

Zersetzung! The East German art of sowing chaos and discord. As a tactic, it still has its fans.

The Arab Spring ten years on reveals the meat-hook realities beyond revolutionary slogans.

George Washington led an army in a successful colonial revolt, but he was no radical. The man was about as establishment as you get.

Still, the culture of America’s 17 intelligence agencies is hardwired for the cloak and dagger – even among themselves.

On the gulf’s east bank sits Iran, baring its teeth at Saudi Arabia and doing a fair job of conquest-by-internal-rot of Iraq.

“Run and find out.” Motto of all the Mongoose family Rudyard Kipling Rikki-tikki-tavi November 2012: I was starting to sweat. It was a...

Whatever it is that Iran can do to us, they’re already doing it.

When politics is a blood sport, the jokes just keep getting worse.

John Bolton and his mustache want to go to war with Iran. We should resist the urge.