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The Ceasefire Has Expired. How Could the U.S.-Iran War Escalate?
In The News
Richard Fontaine, the president of the Center for a New American Security and longtime foreign policy adviser to John McCain, the late senator, told me: “The chances of an esc...
By Richard Fontaine
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Pivot from Asia? What Trump’s South Korea ‘shock’ says about US strategy
In The News
Richard Fontaine, chief executive of the Centre for a New American Security and a former Republican foreign policy adviser, says there have been “a number of contradictions an...
By Richard Fontaine
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America’s Pivot to Asia Takes a U-Turn
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The US must “husband military resources to defend the first island chain while encouraging allies to do more in their own defense,” observes Richard Fontaine, chief executive ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Threatening Friends and Courting Enemies in Trump’s ‘Upside-Down World’
In The News
Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and a former adviser to Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said that none of the bomba...
By Richard Fontaine
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‘I Was So Wrong’: Iranians Say Trump’s Promises Never Came True
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Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and a former foreign policy adviser to Senator John McCain, noted that it was not the first tim...
By Richard Fontaine
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As Iran Cease-Fire Frays, Trump Faces a Muddled War and Unpalatable Options
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“The problem is that all the options — endure, escalate or agree — are unattractive in different ways,” Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Ukraine War Back in Focus, but Peace Remains Distant
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As tensions in the Gulf appear to be easing following the apparent success of U.S.-Iran diplomacy, attention is gradually shifting back to Ukraine. Yet expectations that momen...
By Richard Fontaine
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Who Calls the Shots? Trump and Netanyahu Clash over Diverging Goals in Middle East War
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“Iran and the Trump administration see the Iran and Lebanon theatres as united, and Israel sees them as distinct,” said Richard Fontaine, chief executive of the Center for a N...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump Hits the Stalemate Phase of His International Interventions, and It Stings
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“Foreign policy tends to be a long and difficult enterprise,” Richard Fontaine, a former top aide to Senator John McCain and now the chief executive of the Center for a New Am...
By Richard Fontaine
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U.S. Pauses ‘Project Freedom’ as Trump Seeks Way out of Hormuz Impasse
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“If he settles for a narrow deal on the strait and postpone[s] the nuclear talks, the U.S. gives up the leverage generated by blockading Iranian ports. If he holds out for a m...
By Richard Fontaine
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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
In The News
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
