Security-Intelligence

Here's How Trump's Pentagon Could Take On ISIS

Wed, 08/02/2017 - 08:36
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Wed, 08/02/2017
Trump's Pentagon

Daniel R. DePetris
President Donald Trump has spoken: he wants his secretary of defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to get to work immediately on a plan to aggressively confront the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. And according to an executive order he signed last week, he wants that plan on his desk by late February.

From Obama to Trump: Lessons and challenges

Tue, 07/02/2017 - 09:31
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Tue, 07/02/2017
Ahmet Davutoğlu


Ahmet Davutoğlu, former Turkish PM, writes on the legacy of Obama's foreign policy and the challenges ahead for Trump.

Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Turkey and a Member of Parliament from the AK Party, Turkey

There are few Western politicians whose election aroused as much excitement and hope both in the West and East, in the north and south, as Barack Obama. But there are also few politicians that have caused as much dismay and disappointment worldwide as Obama. Therefore his legacy will certainly be controversial.

Is Turkey being snowed by flurry of fake defense news?

Tue, 07/02/2017 - 09:19
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Tue, 07/02/2017
Fake defense news?

 
Author Metin Gurcan, TranslatorTimur Göksel
As the United States is plagued by a politically motivated "fake news" epidemic, it seems there's been an outbreak in Turkey as well.

Why Turkey-Greece islands confrontation is more than it seems

Fri, 03/02/2017 - 08:36
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Fri, 03/02/2017
Turkey-Greece confrontation


AUTHOR, Cengiz Çandar

This week's revival, after two decades, of the Kardak rivalry between Turkey and Greece is less about those countries' relationship and more about Turkey thumbing its nose at the European Union.

Turkey squeezed between Russia, US in Syria

Thu, 02/02/2017 - 09:20
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Thu, 02/02/2017
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Author Semih Idiz

Developments in Syria may once again be slipping through Turkey’s fingers. The new Donald Trump administration in Washington has already disappointed Ankara. Rather than being welcomed, Trump’s advocacy of safe zones in Syria — an idea first proposed by Turkey — has ruffled official Turkish feathers. Ankara now fears that such zones will be a step toward granting Syrian Kurds autonomy. Turkish officials have been noticeably mute on the matter, saying they need to see a full proposal before commenting.

The Fight over Nationalism Is About to Get Messy

Wed, 01/02/2017 - 08:42
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Wed, 01/02/2017
Fight over Nationalism


President Trump needs to start caring about the war of words.
James Jay Carafano
The storm is gathering. The next great battle in the world war of ideas will be over the meaning of nationalism. It’s a fight the United States cannot afford to lose—and one that the Trump administration will have to go “over there” to win.

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