Biden and special forces: A series of unfortunate events
It’s hard to know what to make of this. Many readers will be familiar with the recent social media posting by President Biden’s staff in which the faces of Delta Force members were shown, and on two...
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How not to do deterrence
Whatever the Biden administration is doing about deterrence and containment in the Middle East – if we assume what’s going on is meant to achieve deterrence and containment – is unfolding in a peculiar...
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On Biden policy in the Middle East: A timeline tells a tale
Sometimes timelines speak louder than argument. We’ve found that on a number of occasions in the last several years, and a fresh occasion has arisen in that regard. Two events on Sunday, 26 November...
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“Totally defensive” in the Middle East: The void and the non-deterrence
It doesn’t help that the U.S. military chain of command was basically, as far as we can see right now, in Status Unknown around the New Year. It’s being reported that neither the National Security...
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In Yemen, Iran moves to occupy the strategic center
Another quick-look on the fast-moving events in the Middle East. This article, like the previous one of 15 January 2024, will mainly quote from other correspondence. I make this point to explain the...
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When you absolutely, positively have to prevent a world war
Monday 29 January update: This article has to get posted sometime, so I’m officially cutting it off with a target-set observation on the most recent attacks by Iran’s proxies, including the attack on...
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Cable outages in Red Sea highlight hazards of hybrid warfare (even if Houthis...
On Monday 26 February 2024, it was reported that the Seacom/Tata TGN telecom cable, an undersea cable running from Egypt to India and down Africa’s East coast to South Africa, was suffering an outage...
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TOC Ready Room 7 March 2024: Bridge to Gaza, Bag checks in NY; UPDATE
[See update on pier-off-Gaza story below. – J.E.] Reporting that ramped up from 6 to 7 March 2024 indicates President Joe Biden is to announce in his State of the Union (SOTU) address Thursday night...
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One ping on the motive behind Biden’s and Democrats’ intervention attempts...
This will be one ping, one ping only, and a short one on the subject. There’s a distracted and incorrect belief that President Biden and Senator Chuck Schumer are truckling to the immigrant anti-Israel...
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There it is: Biden administration ponders blocking Israel with “peacekeeping”...
The first thing to be said about this concept – and we’re going to keep this short and focused – is that it’s not fundamentally about the debacle in Beirut in 1983 or about the “Samantha Power”...
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