Iranian influence did expand considerably in the previous decade with the help of the invasion of Iraq, but it has now been waning significantly. At present, Iran is stuck shoring up two faltering ...

Maj. Gen. J.F.C. Fuller, Britain’s leading military thinker of the 20th century, wrote that the object of war is not victory, but peace. A war that fails to achieve clear political objectives is ...

Where Iraq and Iran once balanced each other in the Persian Gulf, the American invasion greatly weakened the former, providing an opportunity for Tehran to ensure that Iraq could never again ...

In the case of the US invasion of Iraq 20 ... to the benefit of neighboring Iran, which has increased its sway over Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, in addition to Iraq. The war also isolated the ...