Failing to grapple with the tragedy of the Iraq War in all its complexity risks creating simplistic narratives that will leave American analysts and policymakers ripe for repeating the same mistakes ...

Good intelligence informs decisions; it does not justify them. And it should never be delivered—or received—with hubris. In ...

Israel’s intelligence persuading the Trump administration to launch its weekend strikes on Iran may have been based on the ...

NBC News foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell on "Washington Week" said President Donald Trump is politicizing ...

We fled from our home in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War. Now Trump's U.S. strike promises to unleash a new host of suffering ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls on reporters for questions during a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington, Sunday, June 22, 2025, after the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, ...

U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites sparked sharply divergent reactions. Those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have a ...

The ongoing debate over whether Iranian nuclear sites were “obliterated”, as the US president and his team insist, or merely ...

After a short and successful war with Iraq, President George H.W. Bush claimed in 1991 that “the ghosts of Vietnam have been ...

Hezbollah was able to fire loads and loads of rockets at Israel without getting a nuke in response. But I think we've got to remember the Iranians talk about Israel as the lesser Satan. We are the ...

Despite grandiose statements from Iran’s leadership, the regime in Tehran is in turmoil. In addition to the loss of ...

America's involvement in the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran has prompted comparisons with its 2003 invasion of Iraq.