The Ghost Standoff Brigade
Avi Drori, Senior Contributor June 28, 2026 The battlefield has become transparent, and the armies fighting on it have not changed shape to match. Winning the next war will take more than new weapons. It will take a new formation — an independent maneuvering brigade built to destroy the enemy from inside his own blind spot. A British general, surveying the war in Ukraine, described what he saw in a single phrase: a transparent battlefield where there is no sanctuary. It may b
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A Versailles Peace - and the War it Will Birth
June 18, 2026 By: Avi Drori, Senior Contributor The U.S.–Iran treaty signed today is being sold as the end of a war. It is the opening of a far more dangerous one. There is a grim poetry in the venue. When Donald Trump put his signature to the draft of the U.S.–Iran accord beside Emmanuel Macron, he chose the Palace of Versailles — the same gilded hall where, a century ago, statesmen congratulated themselves on a peace that turned out to be an armistice with a fuse attached.
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The Double Standard Jews are held to
By Avi Drori, Sr. Contributor June 1, 2026 There is a thought experiment that exposes a great deal about the state of American political discourse. It takes about thirty seconds, and it is devastating in its clarity. Imagine Joe Rogan devoting three hours of podcast time to the outsized influence of the Knights of Columbus on Republican politics. Imagine Tucker Carlson running a primetime segment asking whether American Catholics owe their first loyalty to Washington or to Ro
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