SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
World War III: The Soft Launch
Everything is connected, and it’s starting to become clear with the US strategic operations.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Has Trump Chosen to Fall on the Hills of the Zagros?
Did the US have no concrete follow-on plan to restore Iran as a stable ally of the US in the region, as it had been during the US Nixon Administration (1969-74)?
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
CURRENT ESTIMATE | Iran: What Took So Long? And Where Does It Go Now?
GOVERNANCE & ELECTIONS
How Will Iran Adapt Now?
Where does Iran go from here? How is the global balance changed — and it is being changed — by the emerging collapse of the Iranian theocratic, revolutionary Government?
HISTORY
ESSENTIAL READING | Revisiting the Fall of the Shah of Iran
Scott Anderson honed his skills as a war correspondent, but his new book, King of Kings, has a cinematic quality as it re-examines how the Shah of Iran, Mohamad Reza Pahlavi, fell from power in 1979.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
STRATEGIC TRAJECTORIES | Iran Faces a New World: Will it, Can it, Take the Mighty Leap?
Iran has now lost its rationale for its war against Israel/US. But are Iran’s ruling clerics ready to seize the opportunity to transform their strategic posture, even when it means possibly saving the clerical administration? If not, then they risk overthrow or collapse to an ever-greater degree.