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lly align itself with Tehran again. "[There are] probably recollections of the time, more than 30 years ago, when Iran was the regional gendarme of the United States," he said. "That would mean a long-term strategic erosion in their relative position in the region." The idea that U.S.-Iranian relations could ret

a deal that leads to peace, they think this leads to Iranian domination of the Gulf," said Jon Alterman, the director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "To their minds it doesn't do anything about Iranian ambitions, it just takes the United States out of the equation as a

d quickly escalate into a broader war. In advance of Mr. Panetta's speech in New York on Thursday, senior officials debated how much to talk about the United States's offensive capabilities, assessing whether such an acknowledgment could help create a deterrent for countries contemplating attacks on the country

rsecurity rushed to fill in the blanks. "His speech laid the dots alongside each other without connecting them," James A. Lewis, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote Friday in an essay for ForeignPolicy.com. "Iran has discovered a new way to harass much sooner than expected, and

unding pretentious nonsense, understatements, or outright lies. Add to this the systemic crisis that has predictably hit the EU, the sharp fall in the United States' prestige after its two military-political defeats, and the weaknesses of its economic model (still the strongest, though), which were graphically r

the energy to overcome great collective difficulties can only be forged in great collective failure. Walter Laqueur is a Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. His most recent book is HARVEST OF A DECADE. NYT Why Our Elites Stink David Brooks July 12, 2012 -- Th

a political reality can be created unilaterally is both. It undermines the long-running dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, and the role of the United States as its facilitator. It also calls into question the fate of a series of so-called "final-status" issues (like final borders, sovereignty over Jerus

the value and effect of cyber attack will grow. James Andrew Lewis is a senior fellow and director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. EFTA_R1_02031728 EFTA02690747 Is Arbele 5. Foreign Policy The next U.S.-Russia missile race Da

a political reality can be created unilaterally is both. It undermines the long-running dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, and the role of the United States as its facilitator. It also calls into question the fate of a series of so-called "final-status" issues (like final borders, sovereignty over Jerus

the value and effect of cyber attack will grow. James Andrew Lewis is a senior fellow and director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. EFTA_R1_02031784 EFTA02690798 Is Arbele 5. Foreign Policy The next U.S.-Russia missile race Da

nderwater drones. The ships will stay out of the narrow Strait of Hormuz, to avoid direct interaction with Iran's navy. In advance of the exercise, the United States Navy earlier this summer doubled the number of minesweepers in the region, to eight vessels. The deployments are part of a larger series of military rei

elegraphed to the Iranians. "The United States does not have to threaten preventive strikes," Anthony H. Cordesman, a longtime military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in a recent paper, "Iran: Preventing War by Making It Credible." "It simply has to make its capabilities clear in