Edward Luttwak

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  • Dec 10, 2024
    Damascus has fallen — something that has as much to do with Iran as with Syria. Tehran had long kept the Assad dictatorship in power, with its Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, the...
  • Oct 8, 2024
    Having been attacked by almost 200 ballistic missiles — launched by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and each the size of a tanker truck — Israel...
  • Oct 1, 2024
    Through its early history — but not for the last four decades and more — the main threats to Israel’s security came from its Arab neighbours. That resulted in...
  • Aug 1, 2024
    Before Yasser Arafat was evacuated from besieged Beirut on 30 August 1982, an Israeli sniper had him in his sights but was refused permission to kill him. Arafat was by then a...
  • Jun 19, 2024
    Neither the West not its enemies are prepared to fight. Some 30 years ago, I coined the phrase “post-heroic warfare” to acknowledge a new phenomenon: the very...
  • Apr 23, 2024
    It is only now, almost 16 years since Obama first entered the White House with the private determination to end Iran’s “death to America” hostility at all costs,...
  • Mar 23, 2024
    This war has broken his authority
  • Feb 20, 2024
    The final offensive against Hamas faces complications  
  • Feb 9, 2024
    The tactical victory that Hamas achieved on October 7, with all its scenes of unimaginable horror, has become a leading driver of its strategic defeat  
  • Jan 24, 2024
    From the West to Saudi Arabia, its days of isolation are over