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Iran’s military forces combine state-of-the-art drones and hackers with out-of-date conventional weapons
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Iran’s military forces combine state-of-the-art drones and hackers with out-of-date conventional weapons

  • Paul J. Springer, Air University
  • Updated Apr 15, 2026

Knowing what comes next in Operation Epic Fury is better understood by grasping the evolution of Iran’s military structure and capabilities.

US and Iran: A brief history of how decades of mistrust and bad blood led to open warfare
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US and Iran: A brief history of how decades of mistrust and bad blood led to open warfare

  • Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Updated Apr 4, 2026

Some major events in the history of US-Iran relations highlight differences between the countries’ views, but others have presented real opportunities for reconciliation.

War on Iran during nuclear negotiations undermines the US’s ability to talk peace around the world − and the effects won’t end when Trump leaves office
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War on Iran during nuclear negotiations undermines the US’s ability to talk peace around the world − and the effects won’t end when Trump leaves office

  • Debak Das, University of Denver
  • Updated Mar 27, 2026

Conducting military strikes against a nation that is engaged in negotiations to reduce its nuclear capacity has set a dangerous precedent.

How the National Security Council typically functions to plan and fully assess risks when presidents consider going to war
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How the National Security Council typically functions to plan and fully assess risks when presidents consider going to war

  • Gregory F. Treverton, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Updated Mar 24, 2026

The national intelligence community has seemingly been sidelined from Trump’s Iran war decisions – a far cry from previous administrations, writes a former National Security Council member.

Failure of US-Iran talks was all-too predictable – but Trump could still have stuck with diplomacy over strikes
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Failure of US-Iran talks was all-too predictable – but Trump could still have stuck with diplomacy over strikes

  • Nina Srinivasan Rathbun, University of Toronto; USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Updated Mar 1, 2026

Silence from the US side after a third round of indirect talks and frustration expressed by President Donald Trump set the stage for military strikes.

Iran will respond to US-Israeli strikes as existential threats to the regime – because they are
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Iran will respond to US-Israeli strikes as existential threats to the regime – because they are

  • Javed Ali, University of Michigan
  • Updated Feb 28, 2026

The latest attack on Iran goes far beyond previous operations by Israel and the US in both scale and scope. Tehran will likely lean on unconventional warfare as well as its missile stockpile.

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Victor Davis Hanson: What is the Democratic alternative to Trump?

  • Updated Aug 28, 2025

The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative.

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Rachel Marsden: Trump’s foreign policy has turned into one big act of manspreading

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Barbie’s performative womanliness has an equivalent, and it’s not Ken, who’s famously neutered by design. It’s Donald Trump and the rest of th…

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Rachel Marsden: Trump’s Iran bombings roll out the red carpet for nukes and terrorism

  • Updated Jun 25, 2025

PARIS — Nobody wanted the U.S. to bomb Iran last weekend — especially not Americans. A full 60% thought Donald Trump should stay out of this I…

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