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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Decoding Iran’s Gray Zone Strategy
The gray zone is the contested arena that sits between routine statecraft and open warfare. It is defined by a paradox: it is an area of intense competition where actors use every tool of national power to achieve strategic gains, … Continue reading
Decoding Michael Eisenstadt
Michael Eisenstadt is a technical military specialist inside the pro-Israel strategic policy ecosystem. He works at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an institution that sits close to the Israel security perspective but speaks in the language of military … Continue reading
Why Do Elites Hate Bibi Netanyahu?
Elites do not hate Benjamin Netanyahu for a single reason. They dislike him because he violates several norms that govern the Western foreign policy ecosystem, and those violations cut across policy, style, and power. Most Western elites operate inside a … Continue reading
Why Is Tucker Attacking Chabad?
Why is Chabad getting called a Jewish supremacist cult? Doesn’t every group think it is best? I have a personal bias here. I love Chabad. Most Lubavitchers I know are happy, healthy, energetic people. On the other hand, some people … Continue reading
SMH: Trump officials ‘asked why Australian Jews aren’t carrying guns’
Viewed through Alliance Theory, this story is about competing security cultures and alliance expectations between three different coalitions. The question from Trump officials, why aren’t Australian Jews carrying guns, reflects the American minority self defense model where minority communities have … Continue reading
Tell Me How This Ends
JP Morgan on how Operation Epic Fury would end: “Resource risk will begin to outweigh increasingly marginal military gains and the conclusion to the conflict will come down to the three M’s : Munitions, Markets and Midterms.” That JPMorgan line … Continue reading
International Relations Scholars Oppose Iran War
First. Among U.S. IR scholars, 86 percent oppose the attack. Only about 9.6 percent support it. That is not normal disagreement. That is near-unanimous elite opposition. But the interesting part is not the opposition. The interesting part is how they … Continue reading
Reluctant Relief That Trump Is Bombing Iran Seeps Through Elite Commentary
You can see hints of it. It rarely appears as open approval. It leaks out in tone, framing, and what journalists choose to emphasize. One signal is the grudging competence frame. Analysts who strongly dislike Trump will write things like … Continue reading
MSM Symmetry In Iran Coverage
Most national security reporters sit inside the same information ecosystem as the officials they cover. Their sources are Pentagon officers, intelligence briefers, congressional staff, and think tank analysts. When a crisis hits, those relationships become the primary pipeline of information. … Continue reading
When Is It OK To Mock People’s Looks?
The New Yorker mocks looks maxxers. Becca Rothfeld performs a familiar ritual: she identifies a foreign cultural practice, names it as derangement, and signals to her readers that these people sit outside the circle of respectable discourse. The phrase “captivating … Continue reading