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Jul 25, 2026, 9:35 AM

The Nuclear Option for Pickaxe Mountain

In June 2025, while the Pentagon debated whether GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators could crack Fordow, two defense officials admitted a deep internal contention: some planners believed only a tactical nuclear weapon could destroy the site. After the White House...

Jul 24, 2026, 8:07 PM

Isn’t It Time to end ‘Project 79’?

More than a month has passed since the signing of the newest ceasefire agreement between the United States, its mediators, and Islamic Republic regime in Iran. Yet no tangible progress towards lasting peace is visible. Violations of the agreement...

Jul 24, 2026, 6:02 PM

A New Security Order for the Gulf

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Recent attacks attributed to Iran clearly indicate that Gulf security can no longer be managed through fragmented national defenses or reliance on ad hoc American intervention. As missile, drone, and cyber threats increasingly transcend borders, Israel, the Gulf monarchies,...

Jul 24, 2026, 12:35 PM

No Current Reason to Bomb Iran Beyond Netanyahu’s Personal Interests

Here we go again. As expected, the United States is bombing Iran, the Israeli government wants to join the bombing party, and everyone is talking about it happening sometime this weekend. When everyone knows it is coming, it can only...

Jul 23, 2026, 10:27 PM

We Are the Phoenix: From Ashes, We Build

There is something profoundly beautiful about the current timing. We’re sitting in the day of Tisha B’Av, the anniversary of our greatest destruction. A day that mourns what we lost, but also whispers about everything we still have the power...

Justine Johnston Hemmestad

Jul 23, 2026, 6:44 PM

A Memorial, Followed by an Article from the Dayton Leader

"We are the family of Major Sheila Har-Even RIP. On 07.10.2023 was Shiloh commander of the Nahal Oz region, company commander in "Golani". At 06:29 the gates of hell were opened. At 08:23 the miracle of creation that was our Shiloh...

Jul 23, 2026, 9:28 AM

Israel Will Join the US in Striking Pickaxe Mountain

On Tuesday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump promised to hit Pickaxe Mountain "very heavily" and claimed Iran could do nothing to stop it. Hours later, before the Senate Appropriations Committee, his war secretary was asked a direct question:...

Jul 23, 2026, 5:53 AM

An Iranian Civil War?

The Iranian people will surely have a better future if the country’s Islamist regime falls, right? Well, don’t be so sure. Inasmuch as Iranians deserve to be free of their Islamist oppressors, the fall of the Islamic Republic wouldn’t...

Jul 22, 2026, 10:42 PM

Missile Defense Works. Iran is Adapting and Learning How to Defeat It.

Iran’s deadly missile attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan earlier this week should force American, Israeli and allied defense officials to confront an uncomfortable reality. Despite weeks of sustained military operations against Iran’s missile forces, launch facilities and supporting infrastructure, Tehran retains a significant...

Sheldon Kirshner

Jul 22, 2026, 9:29 PM

Trump Trapped In A War Of Attrition In Iran

The United States and Iran are enmeshed in a no-war, no-peace deadlock that could easily escalate into an all-out war again should there be no major diplomatic breakthrough. The war that the United States and Israel initiated against Iran on...

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