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Indo-Pacific Security / Middle East Security
Trump Finds His Offramp with Iran. But the Causes of War Remain Unresolved.“Iran remains in the control of the Strait, which was not the case before the war,” said Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security, a Was...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Art of the Deal Eludes Donald Trump in Iran
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“The three broad choices are to escalate, walk away or cut a deal,” said Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for a New American Security, a Washington think-tank. “The p...
By Richard Fontaine
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Why Delayed US-China Summit Raises Stakes for Takaichi Ahead of White House Visit
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Richard Fontaine, a former State Department and National Security Council (NSC) official, said Trump “is likely to express some frustration” at the situation. “If the summit c...
By Richard Fontaine & Lisa Curtis
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The Merchants of War
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On February 28, at 9:40 am local time in Sohrevardi Street in Tehran, the first thing Shirin noticed was not the blast but the quiet that came after it. Tehran, a city that us...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Shifting Iran Strategies Risk a Chaotic Global Endgame
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In the opening days of the Iran war, US President Donald Trump and his team have offered a series of often changing objectives for the campaign....
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Embraces U.S. Military Power After Years of Caution
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In his three runs for the presidency, Donald J. Trump, more than any other candidate, spoke of the limits of U.S. military power, especially in the Middle East....
By Richard Fontaine
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The Gulf Next Door
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They say that if you don’t like Dubai, you won’t like the future. That’s usually a note of cultural snobbery — the shiny, booming expat city is a place for “social media hotel...
By Richard Fontaine
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The Iranian Force Built to Defend the Regime Now Faces the Ultimate Test
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U.S. and Israeli airstrikes killed many of Iran’s top leaders in just hours, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But the huge security apparatus they oversaw to e...
By Richard Fontaine
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Once the Americans Warned of the Russian Threat. Now, It’s the Europeans’ Turn.
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Four years ago American officials arrived at the Munich Security Conference armed with satellite photographs of massing Russian troops and intercepts of conversations among Ru...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Oil Grab in Venezuela Shatters an American Taboo
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President George W. Bush said he was invading Iraq to keep America safe. But critics saw a hidden motive: oil....
By Richard Fontaine
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Goodbye Arms Control, Hello Nuclear Anarchy
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The era of nuclear arms control officially ends next week. On Feb. 5, New START, the last such treaty between the United States and Russia, will expire....
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s Turnabout on Greenland Shows the Limits of His Coercive Powers
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Even by President Trump’s own mercurial standards, his whipsawing over the past few weeks on Greenland — insisting on the largest land acquisition in American history and then...
By Richard Fontaine
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Military Experts Reject Trump’s Logic That U.S. Must Own Greenland to Defend It
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President Trump’s assertion that the U.S. must own Greenland to expand its defenses there runs counter to decades of policy and undermines the deterrence of its global network...
By Richard Fontaine
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How Marco Rubio Went from “Little Marco” to Trump’s Foreign-Policy Enabler
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Just after midnight on January 3rd, as American commandos surged into Caracas to seize President Nicolás Maduro, large sections of the city went dark. Blackouts are common in ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Administration Renews Push for Greenland Emboldened by Maduro Capture
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President Donald Trump and his administration, more confident after last weekend’s capture of former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, are ratcheting up their thr...
By Richard Fontaine
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Rubio Takes on His Most Daunting Role Yet
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President Donald Trump ordered the military operation in Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro. But in the aftermath, Marco Rubio is in the spotlight....
By Richard Fontaine
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After Venezuela, Trump Offers Hints About What Could Be Next
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Barely 48 hours after toppling the leader of Venezuela and asserting U.S. rights to the country’s oil, President Trump threatened Colombia with a similar fate, declared that C...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Is Tying His Legacy to Whatever Happens in Venezuela
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Possibly, just possibly, Donald Trump just scored a foreign-policy success that could define his legacy. By striking Venezuela and whisking away Nicolás Maduro (along with Mad...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security
As Trump Pushes to End Ukraine War, Europe Toils to Have a SayFor Europe’s leaders, the weekend began with another threat to their relevance, courtesy of President Trump. Would the Americans really force Ukraine to capitulate, embrace Pr...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure
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More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. That’s when the United States launched a pressure campaign that of...
By Richard Fontaine
