Forever Wars and the Costs of Collective Forgetting; The Broken Nuclear Umbrella; Worse Than an Axis
Foreign Affairs This Week

July 3, 2026 | View in Browser

 

This week’s highlights:

- The Afghanistan Reckoning by Carter Malkasian

- The Broken Nuclear Umbrella by Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press

- Worse Than an Axis by Thomas Wright

- The End of Hamas by Jaser AbuMousa

- Podcast: Sebastian Mallaby explains how AI will reshape U.S. politics, economics, and national security

- Who Is China? by Ian Johnson

- How to Save the U.S.-Israeli Alliance by Amos Yadlin and Avner Golov

 

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Taliban fighters storming Kabul International Airport after the U.S. withdrawal, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 2021

The Afghanistan Reckoning

Forever Wars and the Costs of Collective Forgetting

By Carter Malkasian

 

The Broken Nuclear Umbrella

What Comes After Extended Deterrence

By Jennifer Lind and Daryl G. Press

 
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Beijing, September 2025

Worse Than an Axis

Why the Informal Alignment of U.S. Adversaries Is So Dangerous

By Thomas Wright

 
Carrying the body of Hamas commander Mohammad Odeh in Gaza City, May 2026 

The End of Hamas

And the Convenient Fiction of Continued Menace

By Jaser AbuMousa

New Podcast Episode

The Foreign Affairs Interview

The AI Race Nobody Can Win

A Conversation With Sebastian Mallaby

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The AI Race Nobody Can Win

A Conversation With Sebastian Mallaby

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Who Is China?

Beijing’s Self-Inflicted Identity Crisis

By Ian Johnson