Author: Patrick Sullivan

Eight Military Takeaways from the Maduro Raid

Patrick Sullivan and John Amble | 01.09.26 | Commentary & Analysis

Despite steadily heightening tensions, heated rhetoric, US strikes against alleged drug...

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Overcoming the Principal-Agent Problem in “Running” Venezuela

Patrick Sullivan | 01.07.26 | Commentary & Analysis

One of the primary questions in the wake of Operation Absolute Resolve—the unilateral American...

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What Will Israel’s Strikes Against Iran Achieve?

Patrick Sullivan | 06.13.25 | Commentary & Analysis

Two months ago, I wrote an article in anticipation of Israel or the United States conducting a...

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The Logics of Military Force: Or, How India and Pakistan Fought Each Other and Didn’t Use the Bomb

Max Margulies and Patrick Sullivan | 05.14.25 | Commentary & Analysis

Global catastrophe seems to have been narrowly avoided this past weekend, after India and Pakistan...

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Operation Opera Redux? Iran’s Nuclear Program and the Preventive War Paradox

Patrick Sullivan | 04.16.25 | Commentary & Analysis

On June 7, 1981, the Israeli Air Force conducted an airstrike against the Osirak nuclear reactor...

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