Tag: S-400
During his two and a half years in the Trump Administration, Mike Pompeo has mostly managed to stay on President Donald Trump’s good side, even as other senior officials have come and gone. But the ...
After several years of verbal jousting with the U.S., Turkey last week accepted an initial delivery of a highly advanced Russian air defense system, the S-400. Supporting equipment to bring the system up to full ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s drive to restore Turkey’s stature as an indispensable Middle Eastern power is colliding with his misplaced confidence in his own judgment. Compounding that danger, Erdogan is feeding his hubris by surrounding ...
Turkey’s political leadership is ecstatic amid its growing alliance with Russia and its spurning of the US by acquiring the Russian S-400 air defense system. Speaking symbolically on the third anniversary of the 2016 attempted ...
On June 6, then-Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan sent a strongly-worded letter to his Turkish counterpart over Turkey’s planned purchase of S-400 air defense system from Russia. The letter outlined a timeline to remove Turkey from ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on July 9. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Ankara’s purchase of Russian missile-defense system is a blow to relationship with the U.S. By Editorial Board Star Tribune A Turkish purchase of ...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, April 3, 2018. Reuters Turkey has vowed to forge ahead with its acquisition of Russia’s S-400 air-defense system, despite objections ...
While Donald Trump’s Jacksonian beliefs make him the current global disruptor-in-chief, in terms of America’s Middle East policy they paradoxically drag him back toward Washington’s traditional post-1979 stance in the region. In complete contradiction to ...
INTIMIDATING WEAKER COUNTRIES is normal behavior for great powers. For most of the 20th century, the United States was strong enough to keep allies in line and rivals at bay. Today, however, other countries are ...
The delivery of the Russian S-400 missile system to Turkey has focused global attention on the former Ottoman and Eastern Roman Empires. The S-400 system presents critical security and defense investment issues for the U.S., since it ...