Peter Brookes is a senior research fellow, focusing on weapons of mass destruction and counter proliferation, in the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
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It was a lot like one of those holiday family get-togethers. You know, one of those annual gatherings that are well-intentioned expressions of love and… Read More
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There’s a lot of confusion about the announcement by the White House late last week about the upcoming deployment of U.S. special operations forces to… Read More
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I never thought I’d say this, considering recent events, but we may have to—gulp—thank Russia for something: a potential positive (and long overdue) shift in… Read More
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When President Obama said at the United Nations on Tuesday that “defeating ISIL requires—I believe—a new leader,” I thought for a brief moment I’d finally… Read More
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You have to admit it’s quite curious. I’m talking about the elaborate state visit that President Obama is hosting this week for Chinese President Xi… Read More
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As if Syria wasn’t nasty enough after four years of bloody civil war—a brutal Syrian regime, Islamic State barbarity, an Iranian and Hezbollah influx, and… Read More
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Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with saying some 200 years ago that “China is a sleeping giant. Let him sleep, for when he wakes, he will… Read More
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Of the myriad of mind-blowing flaws contained in the Iran nuclear deal—a subject that has dominated the foreign policy debate across the country this summer—there’s… Read More
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Tired of the bantering about the deeply-flawed Iran nuclear deal? No worries—there are plenty of other scary scenarios to mull over during your morning coffee… Read More
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It turns out the Iran nuke deal is a lot like the guy or gal you spy across the room at a dimly lit party… Read More
