Edam Blog
“Deal of the Century”
Last week, I watched President Trump’s and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s White House remarks on television. I also read the transcript[i].…
Browsing: USA
EDAM Blog
Iran-US Confrontation with Iraq in the Middle
President Obama made his intention to engage Iran public in his landmark Cairo speech on June 4, 2009, well before…
EDAM Blog
The Middle East: A Disheartening Beginning for the New Decade
The Iraq-Iran war started on September 22, 1980. It lasted eight years. In August 1991 Iraq invaded Kuwait. A massive…
Defense Intelligence Sentinel
The Death of the Master of Puppets: General Qassem Soleimani’s Assassination and Its Meaning for the Middle Eastern Proxy Wars
The Death of the Master of Puppets: General Qassem Soleimani’s Assassination and Its Meaning for the Middle Eastern Proxy…
Genel
No to Greater Involvement in Libya
The fighting and the humanitarian tragedy in Yemen remind older generations of Turks of a beautiful but sad folk song,…
Edam Blog
2019: The Year in Review
During the past year, climate change, corruption, street protests, polarization and disarray in the West dominated the global agenda. Frequent fires are part of…
Cyber Governance & Digital Democracy
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Conflict
INTRODUCTION It is hard to predict the exact impact and trajectory of technologies enabled by artificial intelligence (AI).1 Yet these technologies…
Edam Blog
Turkey-US Relations: The Downturn Continues
On October 29, Turkish National Day, the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to formally recognize the “Armenian genocide”. The…
Edam Blog
NATO at Seventy
Literature on “The Art of Human Survival” will have you believe that to have reached the age of seventy must…
Foreign Policy & Security
Don’t Blame Turkey for NATO’s Woes
Emmanuel Macron thinks the Atlantic alliance is brain-dead, but its problems have deeper roots than the recent U.S.-Turkish spat over…