Eliot A. Cohen

Over the past year, after suffering a devastating surprise and brutal losses, Israel has achieved remarkable military successes. Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the greatest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, is dead. So, too, are most of his senior subordinates […]

I was and proudly remain what the Navy calls a plank owner—a member of the first crew of a new vessel—of the good ship National Security Never Trump. I see no reason to unsay anything I have said about Donald

As a teenager, I took boxing lessons. What I learned from that experience—and I commend a bit of pugilistic training to all budding civilian strategists—is that you can take a punch and keep on going. But if your opponent can

One might think that an intelligence failure can be benign: The good guys do far better than expected, the bad guys far worse. In fact, erring on the side of pessimism can be as big a problem as being too

From a purely technical view, the rippling blasts of thousands of exploding pagers in the hands of Hezbollah represented an extraordinary piece of sabotage—one of the most remarkable in the history of the dark arts. For Israel—if that’s who was

Kamala Harris may well become the 47th president of the United States. If she does, it is virtually certain that she, like most of her predecessors in the past 100 years, will enter office focused on a domestic agenda, only