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• Commentary
  • National Review
  • September 12, 2019
  Russia’s Middle East Power Play

  Turkey flouted months of American warnings this summer and took delivery of the Russian-made S-400 air-defense system — triggering Ankara’s expulsion from the F-35 stealth-fig...

  By Vance Serchuk

• Commentary
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • August 9, 2019
  The U.S. Abandoned Iraq. Don’t Repeat History in Afghanistan

  The announcement of a peace agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban is said to be imminent, after years of combat and months of negotiation. The U.S. will reportedly promis...

  By David H. Petraeus & Vance Serchuk

• Commentary
  • The Washington Post
  • April 10, 2019
  Russia and China are outwitting America

  With U.S. politics as polarized as at any point in modern history, it would seem an unlikely moment for a new bipartisan consensus about U.S. foreign policy to emerge. Yet tha...

  By Vance Serchuk

• Commentary
  • National Review
  • March 21, 2019
  The Israeli Model in an Era of Strategic Competition

  Later this year, the Trump administration will release its oft-delayed plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace — the latest in a quarter century of American attempts to resolve one...

  By Vance Serchuk

• Commentary
  • The Washington Post
  • December 4, 2018
  To punish the Saudis, protect the Jamal Khashoggis still at work

  Senate leaders who emerged from a closed-door briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel on Tuesday were unequivocal: Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was directly inv...

  By Vance Serchuk

• Commentary
  • The Atlantic
  • September 25, 2018
  The Myth of Authoritarian Competence

  For nearly six months, one of the world’s top economies has been gripped by crisis, sparking fears of wider financial contagion. Since the spring, the Turkish currency has cra...

  By Vance Serchuk

• Commentary
  • The Atlantic
  • July 11, 2018
  The West Will Survive Trump

  As President Trump kicks off a bruising NATO summit, trans-Atlantic relations are said to be in the grip of an unprecedented crisis. On multiple fronts—defense spending, Iran ...

  By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk

• Commentary
  • Lawfare
  • June 7, 2018
  Congress Should Oversee America’s Wars, Not Just Authorize Them

  Nearly 17 years after the 9/11 attacks, a bipartisan coalition of senators has put forward legislation that promises to overhaul the legal framework for America’s worldwide ca...

  By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk

• Commentary
  • The Atlantic
  • October 3, 2017
  The Uses and Misuses of Historical Analogy for North Korea

  Amid a steady fusillade of ever more capable rockets from North Korea, and an escalating volley of threats and insults flying between Washington and Pyongyang, the crisis in N...

  By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • August 22, 2017
  Trump Learns From America’s Failures in Afghanistan

  Since the end of the Cold War, one of the unfortunate patterns in American foreign policy has been the tendency of new presidents to denounce their predecessors’ approach to t...

  By Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • August 22, 2017
  Trump Learns From America’s Failures in Afghanistan

  Since the end of the Cold War, one of the unfortunate patterns in American foreign policy has been the tendency of new presidents to denounce their predecessors’ approach to t...

  By Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • The Atlantic
  • August 21, 2017
  America Needs to Stay in Afghanistan

  Nearly 16 years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the United States is nearing a seminal moment in its involvement in Afghanistan, as President Donald Trump gathers at...

  By Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • August 16, 2015
  The legacies of the Iraq war

  Just after midnight on Aug. 2, 1990, an invasion force of about 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait. The Kuwaiti military, outnumbered and taken by surprise, was swiftly ...

  By Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • August 10, 2015
  The Guns of August 1990

  Just after midnight on August 2, 1990, an invasion force of approximately 100,000 Iraqi troops crossed into Kuwait. As mechanized and armored Republican Guard divisions breach...

  By Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • April 23, 2015
  The Case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership

  Congress reached a rare and significant bipartisan breakthrough last week on legislation that would provide the executive branch with so-called Trade Promotion Authority - pav...

  By Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • February 11, 2015
  Can We Finally Get an AUMF Right?

  On Wednesday the White House sent legislative text to the Senate and House of Representatives that would authorize military force against the self-declared Islamic State, init...

  By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • January 2, 2015
  Give democratic Tunisia the U.S. support it needs and deserves

  Tunisia is rightly hailed as the lone success story of the Arab Spring: the only country that has threaded a path from the uprisings of 2011 to genuine multiparty democracy to...

  By Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • The Wall Street Journal
  • December 11, 2014
  Why Japan’s Election Matters

  Amidst the worst Russian aggression since the Cold War, the seizure of large swaths of the Middle East by Islamist extremists, a teetering nuclear negotiation with Iran and a ...

  By Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • December 1, 2014
  Pick Your Prism

  This year has been filled with multiple, competing foreign policy crises, but 2014 has also been a year of dueling historical analogies. The trend began in January, when Japan...

  By Richard Fontaine & Vance Serchuk

• • Commentary
  • The Washington Post
  • June 20, 2014
  Obama repeats his Iraq mistake in Afghanistan

  As the Obama administration grapples with how to respond to the terrorist takeover of northern Iraq, one consequence of the crisis should be clear: There is an urgent need to ...

  By Vance Serchuk