His dim tweets and rash threats have pinned the U.S. in a corner with Tehran.

Lessons from a 2016 naval crisis that could have sunk the nuclear deal and opened a conflict, but didn’t.

To avoid war with Iran, the president needs to haul out his Apprentice-era catchphrase.

As tensions rise, an unprecedented military briefing by a hawkish secretary of state throws the chain of command into doubt.

High defense costs are one of the surest ways to hasten a great power's decline.

Iran has not posed a serious terror threat to the United States since the 1980s. Sunni terrorism, on the other hand, has.

Some of the governments supporting Trump's plan to starve Venezuela into submission are none too savory, themselves.

The Trump administration clearly wants one. But the people don't, and neither the military nor neighboring countries are interested in making one happen.

Depends whom you ask, and depends on what kind of help.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's reassurance tour of the region isn't going so well.

The 1997 film was about inventing distraction, not starting an actual war.

John Bolton, the new national security advisor, is a radical nationalist—and has the skills to make Trump's foreign policy fantasies a reality.