America Should End the War but Keep Up the Pressure; A Grand Strategy of Consolidation; The Other China Flash Point
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Let Iran Defeat Itself

America Should End the War but Keep Up the Pressure

 By Richard Nephew

 

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A Grand Strategy of Consolidation

How Trump Can Revitalize American Power

By A. Wess Mitchell

 
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The Other China Flash Point

Like Taiwan, the South China Sea Could Spark a U.S.-China War

By Henrietta Levin

 

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