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Some seven months into the Trump administration’s war on Iran, it has become fashionable for much of the media to depict the conflict as a stalemate – one in which the Trump administration is drifting inexorably toward compromise with Iran’s new, military-dominated regime.

Some 32 former top Iranian officials are demanding Tehran withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty “in the shortest time possible,” which would eliminate a major hurdle for the regime to pursue nuclear weapons.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington last week was a grand affair, full of pomp and circumstance designed to convey a clear message...

In Russia, we know elections are stage-managed affairs, with outcomes predetermined well in advance and then triumphantly presented as evidence of pluralism and representative government.

Last month, Japan released its latest annual defense white paper. The document has a great deal to say about the threats now confronting the island nation, ranging from an increasingly assertive China to a nuclear North Korea. But one of its most important themes concerns something else entirely: the changing nature of warfare itself.