Middle East

Operation Epic Fury is ten days old. The battlefield picture is contested. But the strategic picture is becoming clearer — and it favors the United States.

Surgical strikes and diplomatic off-ramps have failed for forty years. The only path to regional stability runs through Tehran's government collapsing.

Americans were stranded in a war zone while the federal apparatus ran its paperwork. That's not a crisis — it's a Tuesday.

When a president announces a military strike date in advance, it's not a threat. It's a message. The question is who's receiving it.

The U.S.-Israeli pressure campaign against Iran is drawing in regional actors and alarming foreign policy moderates. The moderates are wrong about why.

While critics demand endless diplomatic theater, Trump's pressure campaign against Iran has achieved more in months than a decade of nuclear deals failed to produce.

Striking Iran isn't the question anymore. The question is whether Washington has thought through what happens the morning after the bombs drop.