It is a treaty founded on mutual trust and respect, unlike the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) which Washington routinely holds hostage by threatening to cut off allies from American military cover unless they cough up additional cash. . ..…

Yet the media narrative, and the incompetence of understaffed and often inexperienced administration, one finds agenda that differs far more in style than substance from its predecessors.. ..…

Georgia’s actions in the summer of 2008, prior to the brief and calamitous war with Russia, were explained in part by overconfidence in its growing ties with NATO.27 Israel’s plans for strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites were widely judged as contingent on American leadership support,..…

You might at least imagine that such “insider attacks” – in which a member of the Afghan security forces turns his weapon on his American or NATO trainers or advisers and tries to gun them down – would be the rarest of events. ..…