US & Americas

Vulnerabilities in crucial supply chains in the US, Europe and East Asia came into sharp relief during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that many of the gaps in medical supplies could only be filled—in the acute phase of the crisis—by China…

Il ritiro degli USA dall’Afghanistan, da tempo annunciato ma effettuato in modo precipitoso, caotico e senza un valido coordinamento con gli alleati NATO, ha creato delle serie e comprensibili frizioni se non con tutti gli alleati europei,…

La sconfitta americana in Afghanistan è anche la sconfitta – politica, non militare – di un’alleanza occidentale che mostra periodicamente le sue crepe. Gli europei accusano a mezza bocca Joe Biden di avere preso una decisione unilaterale,…

Smoke and errors It is not quite the First Afghan War redux, but the victory of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is not far short of it. On 1 January 1842, following an ‘agreement’ between Major-General William Elphinstone,…

The Biden administration missed its chance to undertake a fundamental reevaluation of US Middle East policy in its early honeymoon period. There were urgent domestic priorities, there was a world of repair work to be done on U.S. alliances,…