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Twenty years later: A look back at year-long deployment to Iraq
In March 2003, the United States launched a full-scale invasion of Iraq, with a goal of toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime, ...
'Oh, here we go': For Iraq veterans, bombing of Iran opens old wounds
U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites sparked sharply divergent reactions. Those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have a ...
World Politics Review on MSN4d
The Differences Between Iraq in 2003 and Iran in 2025 Matter, Too
When the U.S. attacked Iran, many pointed to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq as a parallel. But it is important to stress the ...
Royal United Services Institute4dOpinion
Implications of Strikes on Iran’s Nuclear Sites for IAEA Credibility
Military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and Tehran's criticism of the IAEA threaten to undermine the credibility and ...
Trump’s Attack on Iran May Have Made the Nuclear Crisis Worse
Iran still has what it needs to build a nuclear weapon despite Trump’s airstrikes, and military hardliners are poised to gain ...
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The Big Nuclear Wink
Proliferation Treaty or NPT. North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya were eventually all signatories to the 1969 agreement. They all to varying degrees trashed the treaty.   North Korea conned their ...
National Catholic Reporter4d
Can the Vatican still shape peace in a fractured world?
The world seems more fractured than at any point in recent memory since World War II. Yet amid this turmoil, the Vatican is ...
A Defiant Iran Draws on the Lessons of an Earlier War
The brutal fight against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq four decades ago shaped Tehran’s approach to the recent war and guides its ...