The risk of a spiraling conflagration that pulls the U.S. in deeper flies in the face of Trump’s own rhetoric about righting ...

Trump accepted that Iran was not Iraq. Few argue that our experiment of imposing a democratic government on Islamic nations ...

The failures of a foreign technocratic nation-building project turned many Americans into cynics and panic-mongers. Trump ...

Trump’s strikes against Iran evoked memories of the post-9/11 interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, when NATO expanded its ...

On Wednesday, when the eyes of the nation were still fixed on the Middle East, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing ...

President Trump is pondering swift military action in Iran. There were similar expectations that the war in Iraq would be ...

Importantly, the president understands that a superpower doesn't act terrified when threatened. Others should be terrified of ...

Trump, in his less diplomatic style, has repeated Biden’s warning, albeit in much more colorful language. He told reporters ...

This is mostly false. In August 2004, Trump said in an interview with Esquire that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein never had weapons of mass destruction at his disposal. But he made more ambiguous ...

From its inception to at least 2022, the United States has carried out nearly 400 military interventions worldwide. It’s ...

Though portrayed as an anti-interventionist, he has no problem with war—as long as America gets something in return. Now he’s ...

President Trump accused Israel and Iran of violating a ceasefire, but then said it was "in effect" after a phone call with ...