US military aircraft played a pivotal role in the Gulf, ensuring air superiority and executing precision strikes in hundreds of missions.
Wealthy Arab nations consider bankrolling Gaza’s reconstruction, but they want assurances Palestinians will lead in the postwar period.
A war would incur serious costs on Iran,... To be fair, very few people who are hawkish on Iran have called for a military campaign to overthrow the Islamic Republic, and generally for good reason ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: As with any counterfactual, it’s difficult to grapple with the full implications of the death of Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War. A successful..
On June 8th 1991 in Washington DC, 8,000 US troops marched in triumph through the streets of their nation’s capital having returned from the Persian Gulf where they had just ousted Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army from Kuwait in one of the most spectacular military operations in history.
Nineteen Republican attorneys general have decided that now is the perfect time to declare war on Costco to convince the bulk retailer to abandon its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Some observers have approvingly claimed that the second Trump administration heralds a realist revival in American foreign policy. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Robert O’Brien, who served as national security adviser in the first Trump administration, eagerly promised “the return of realism with a Jacksonian flavor.”
Western states have not merely supported Israel’s devastating attack on Gaza as if it were a just war of self-defense. They have also sought to repress those demonstrating for the right of Palestinians to live in dignity — or simply to live.
How earnest is Donald Trump? Does the president dream of stealing new territory for America? How maniacally imperialist will this administration be? As with anything Trump says, it’s difficult to know.
Trump in his first days in office has leaned in on the idea that OPEC+, the alliance of oil producing nations, holds the key to ending the war by reducing oil prices.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press, whose AP Style sets the standard for many major news organizations and other publishers, said on Thursday it will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico, but will acknowledge that Mr. Trump directed that it be called the Gulf of America.
The original Soviet-era missiles performed poorly in accuracy tests, but Iraqi modifications made them far worse.