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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman looks at a framed photo of U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on Nov. 18, 2025.

The Saudis Are the Architects of Their Own Misfortune Missed opportunities and strategic blunders have plagued Riyadh.

U.S. President George W. Bush declares the end of major combat operations in Iraq on the USS <em>Abraham Lincoln</em> on May 1, 2003.

Why the United States Keeps Losing Wars Washington has a long record of fighting the wrong war for the wrong objective.

America’s Cosmic Bet on AI The winner takes it all. What happens if the United States loses?

The Book That Predicted Pete Hegseth’s Failures ‘On the Psychology of Military Incompetence’ examines the narrow minds of petty men.

Two people look at a view of Beijing on April 15, 2021.

Why China’s Elites Still Want to Leave Social callousness pushes even the prosperous to seek new lives overseas.

Local Russian residents walk past a destroyed Wildberries logistics complex in the town of Elektrostal outside Moscow on July 18.

The Wildberries Theory of Russian Defeat After oil refineries and cargo ships, Ukraine is now taking out Russian e-commerce.

People wait by a fence topped with barbed wire for the return of migrants who had crossed into Spain’s North African exclave of Ceuta, seen at the Bab Sebta border crossing on the outskirts of Fnideq, Morocco, on Aug. 2.

What Everyone Is Missing About Ceuta The history of the disputed exclave should inform what Spain does next.