U.S. No Longer Needs Turkey to Shape Caucasus Future. It Has Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan Offers Washington the Strategic Access, Energy Security, and Regional Leverage Turkey No Longer Provides
Writing
Essays, columns, and reporting — the full archive. Each piece notes its original outlet.
Ending the American Subsidy to Turkish Grand Strategy
Washington Must End Support for Think Tanks that Pursue Turkey’s Strategic Autonomy as a Zero-Sum Game Against the US
The Anatomy of Turkish Anti-Americanism
Ending the Subsidy: Why the United States Must Stop Extending Credit to an Institutionally Anti-American NATO Ally
The Architecture of Turkey’s Anti-Americanism
Erdoğan’s Turkey Is Using the Hegemon’s Tools to Build the Machine That Will One Day Render the Hegemon Irrelevant
The Architecture of Turkey’s Anti-Americanism - Matrix
Inside the Think-Tank Network Fueling Ankara’s Rift with Washington — Interactive Matrix
The Architecture of Turkey's Anti-Americanism - Organization Dossiers
Identity, leadership, funding, output, US posture, media footprint, controversies, and the personnel pipeline into the state, for every organization in the network.
Join the Ledger
Keeping the count on how free people fight.
The Intellectual Architecture of Turkey's Foreign Policy
Mapping the 21 Think Tanks and Foundations that Supply the Anti-American Narratives Driving Ankara’s Shift Away from the West.
Israel won the war, but the peace is being signed without it
If no ally will write the red lines of the Jewish state into a deal, then it has no choice but to become the guarantor of its own security, and, by extension, of the regional order that its security requires.
The Islamabad Surrender
We Fought the Islamic Republic for Thirty-Nine Days and We Were Winning. The Memorandum in Islamabad Hands That Victory Back. And It Sells the Iranian People to Do It.
Paying Tehran to Keep the Bomb
No Agreement, Not This One and Not a Better One, Can Permanently Guarantee That Iran Never Builds a Nuclear Weapon
The U.S.-Israel Aid Era Is Ending; Drift Is the Greatest Risk
The Only Open Question Is Whether the Transition Is Built or Improvised
From Subsidy to Sovereignty
Restructuring the U.S.-Israel Defense Relationship for the Post-Aid Era
AIPAC at the frontier: A stronger alliance in the post-aid era
America’s pro-Israel lobby has been written off before. The next chapter—built on technology, defense industrial integration and shared strategic competition—should be its most consequential.
In the Same Trench: An American Reflection for Yom Hazikaron, 5786
This Year the Silence Had to Reach Further than It Has Ever Reached Before
Thirty-Nine Days of Fire
The Tactical Triumph and Strategic Uncertainty of Operation Epic Fury
The Unwritten War
One Month in, America's Analysts Are Offering a Rearview Mirror. The Iran War Needs a Roadmap
Breaking the Gate
An Operational Concept for Reopening the Strait of Hormuz Without a Ground Campaign
The Longest Way Home
Classical Strategy and the Path from Air Campaign to Iranian Liberation
The Shortest Way Through
A Doctrine for the Iranian Resistance — The Islamic Republic’s security architecture is cracking, not at the margins, but at its structural core. The air campaign that killed Supreme Leader Ali …
On War: The Last Quiet Room
A Dispatch from a Sealed Room in Israel on the Necessary, Terrible Cost of Ending the Iranian Regime