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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran
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Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous wars in the […]

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

America’s Vacillating Mideast Policy: Is anyone in Charge?

06/18/2025 By Ramzy Baroud

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

Israel-Iran War: History shows you cannot assassinate your way to Peace

06/18/2025 By The Conversation

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16 Killed 39 Wounded In Guerrilla

16 Killed 39 Wounded In Guerrilla

16 Killed, 39 Wounded in Guerrilla Violence Foreign Jihadis Target Shiite Badr Corps Al-Zaman: A statement attributed to Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has announced […]

Juan Cole

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103 Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand

103 Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand

103 Iraqi Parliamentarians Demand Withdrawal of US Troops Gilber Achcar kindly shares his translation of an al-Hayat article: ‘[More than] 103 MPs Demand a Timetable […]

Juan Cole

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More On Exit Strategies Informed

More On Exit Strategies Informed

More on Exit Strategies An informed reader writes, regarding the issue of an exit strategy from Iraq: ‘ First, most reasonable proposals run up against […]

Juan Cole

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Dulaimi To Iran No Attack By Us From

Dulaimi To Iran No Attack By Us From

Dulaimi to Iran: No attack by US from Iraq AMS Repudiates Call for Sunni Votes Al-Hayat reports that Iraqi Minister of Defense Saadoun Dulaimi is […]

Juan Cole

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Russia China Central Asia Call For Us

Russia China Central Asia Call For Us

Russia, China, Central Asia Call for US Withdrawal The members of something called the Shanghai Cooperation Council are trying to push the United States back […]

Juan Cole

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Bahrain Diplomat Wounded In Baghdad

Bahrain Diplomat Wounded In Baghdad

Bahrain Diplomat Wounded in Baghdad Bombing Near Iran Embassy The Bahraini charge d’affaires in Baghdad was shot in the hand while he was on his […]

Juan Cole

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British Operations In Southern Iraq

British Operations In Southern Iraq

British Operations in Southern Iraq A British reservist writes: With regard to your recent comment regarding the South of Iraq: “Most of that area has […]

Juan Cole

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Legalistic War Us Military Reader In

Legalistic War Us Military Reader In

Legalistic War A US military reader in Iraq writes: You wrote “These incidents show a benefit to the guerrillas of their car bomb attacks on […]

Juan Cole

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Egyptian Envoy Kidnapped Sunni Arab

Egyptian Envoy Kidnapped Sunni Arab

Egyptian Envoy Kidnapped Sunni Arab Demonstrations against SCIRI in Tikrit, Baghdad The chief of mission of the Egyptian embassy in Iraq was kidnapped late Saturday […]

Juan Cole

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