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Dome of the rock and wailing wall in Jerusalem, Israel

Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg during a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on September 28, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Vitalii Nosach/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Commentary

NATO Needs Results if Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Summit Is to Be a Success

Luke Coffey

Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Luke Coffey

Oct 20, 2023

Commentary

5 Min Read

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Podcast

Why the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Pushes People’s Buttons

Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Walter Russell Mead

Oct 20, 2023

Podcast

A 7th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron weapons load crew member assists in the transportation of the Launcher Load Frame to the flight-line for loading at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, Jan. 9, 2023. The concept for pre-loading munitions has been around since the B-1 first entered service but has gone unused for 30 years until 7 AMXS resurrected the capability this winter. The LLF is a piece of equipment that allows weapons loaders to pre-load munitions on a launcher, under the cover of a facility, prior to tran

A crew member assists in the transportation of the Launcher Load Frame to the flight-line for loading at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, on January 9, 2023. (Josiah Brown via DVIDS)

Commentary

Israel, Ukraine, and the Pentagon Need Munitions. The US Needs a Wartime Mindset to Deliver.

Nadia Schadlow

Senior Fellow

Nadia Schadlow

Oct 19, 2023

Commentary

6 Min Read

A digital billboard welcomes US President Joe Biden to Israel on October 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Leon Neal via Getty Images)

Podcast

President Biden's Trip to Israel

Jonathan Schachter

Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Jonathan Schachter

Oct 19, 2023

Podcast

AoD | Israel at War (feat. Mike Doran)

Marshall Kosloff

Former Media Fellow

Michael Doran

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Marshall Kosloff & Michael Doran

Oct 18, 2023

Podcast

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In the Media

Hamas and the Gaza Hospital Explosion

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Oct 18, 2023

In the Media

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Podcast

China Insider | China Alienates Israel, Putin in Beijing, and Country Garden’s Imminent Collapse

Miles Yu

Senior Fellow and Director, China Center

Miles Yu

Oct 17, 2023

Podcast

Israeli tanks move near Gaza border as Israeli army deploys military vehicles around the Gaza Strip, Israel, on October 12, 2023. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Commentary

The Cost of Strong American Support at the Start of the War

Jonathan Schachter

Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East

Jonathan Schachter

Oct 16, 2023

Commentary

6 Min Read

A young boy holds up a Hamas flag in between Palestinian Hamas militant during a military show in the Bani Suheila district of Gaza on July 20, 2017. (Chris McGrath via Getty Images)

Commentary

Hamas’s Strategy of Human Sacrifice

Douglas J. Feith

Senior Fellow

Douglas J. Feith

Oct 16, 2023

Commentary

4 Min Read

Secretary of State John Kerry greets Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Vienna on July 14, 2014. (US State Department via Flickr)

Commentary

Appeasing Iran Has Failed

Walter Russell Mead

Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship

Walter Russell Mead

Oct 16, 2023

Commentary

1 Min Read

A long line of cars lined up for gas at filling station on a Saturday night during the oil crisis of 1973, Brooklyn, New York City. (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/Getty Images)

A long line of cars lined up for gas at filling station on a Saturday night during the oil crisis of 1973 in Brooklyn, New York City. (Allan Tannenbaum via Getty Images)

Commentary

Echoes of the 1973 Oil Crisis