Of the four great geopolitical tests facing the United States this year—in Europe, in the Mideast, with China, and over tech leadership—it is war in Ukraine that holds the greatest urgency and is of the most immediate geopolitical consequence. To lose there—or even to settle for stalemate—would have influence on all other theaters. If Russia’s
The latest reports regarding the sale of Iran’s Mohajer-6 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) for use in the Sudanese civil war, which has been raging for the past year, should not surprise those who follow Iranian arms sales. In recent years, and even more so in the last year alone, Iran has been increasing the pace
In the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attack and subsequent war, Israel’s internal security apparatus, the Israel Security Agency, reported escalated concerns of violence between the country’s Jewish and Arab populations. This is not a fabricated anxiety. Many Israelis fear a repeat of the violence experienced in Israel’s mixed cities during the 2021 Israel-Palestine conflict. Thankfully,
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ORIGINAL SOURCE On January 30, Matthew Kroenig, vice president and senior director of the Scowcroft Center, and Jeffrey Cimmino, deputy director of operations and fellow in the Scowcroft Center, were quoted in The Morning Dispatch and AOL.com on a more forceful US response to Iran. Dr. Kroenig’s section of the recent experts react piece was
“We have a deal,” European Council President Charles Michel announced on Thursday. Then, to underscore the inclusivity of that first-person plural pronoun, he added that all twenty-seven European Union (EU) countries had agreed on a fifty-billion-euro aid package to Ukraine through 2027. The breakthrough follows weeks of resistance from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. It
ORIGINAL SOURCE On January 30, Matthew Kroenig, vice president and senior director of the Scowcroft Center, was quoted in VOA News on the aftermath of the deaths of three US soldiers serving in Jordan. He assessed that it is not an accident that the Iran-backed Iraqi militia suspected of carrying out the attack is ending
ORIGINAL SOURCE On January 29, Matthew Kroenig, vice president and senior director of the Scowcroft Center, was quoted in The Telegraph on his section in an experts react piece on the news that three US service members had been killed in Jordan by Iran-backed militants. Deterrence works by convincing an adversary that the costs to
[Actions like hitting back against the Iranian navy, top leadership or nuclear program] would convey to Iran that it badly miscalculated and that attacking the United States was a foolish decision that should not be repeated. Matthew Kroenig
