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Kiron Skinner

Kiron K. Skinner is the Taube Family chair professor at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy, the W. Glenn Campbell research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and former director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Department of State.
by | May 20, 2025

President Trump’s whirlwind Middle East trip revealed a bold shift in strategic thinking; the beginning moves of America’s first truly 21st-century grand strategy. Some short-sighted “experts” have dismissed the trip as a glitzy, camel-riding, sword-dancing, hair-twirling, ego-stroking exercise showcasing nothing…

by and | Dec 9, 2024

The long nightmare of the Assad family dictatorship has come to a sudden end. Hafez al-Assad seized power in Damascus in a 1970 coup, and now, 54 years later, his son Bashar has fled to Moscow for refuge. Scenes of…

by and | Nov 25, 2024

President Trump rightly points out that America did not engage in new wars during his first term in office. The world was indeed a more stable place before the Biden administration engineered a disastrous exit from Afghanistan. That catastrophe signaled…

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