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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.
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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…
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…