Stephen M. Walt

Washington has a long record of fighting the wrong war for the wrong objective.

The Ankara summit only kicked the can down the road.

Military conflict has always existed. It’s just stopped making sense.

The best way for governments to save money is to stop wasting it on completely unnecessary weapons.

Foreign intervention is a policy with a long history of disaster.

If you get an important strategic issue wrong, there are still ways to avoid accountability.

The Iran war was obviously a mistake. Why not say so?

There were always reasons to doubt it was a real possibility—until now.