In the article Trump’s Unrealistic Expectations for NATO from earlier this week, The Fulda Gap critiqued Trump’s suggestion that NATO “wasn’t taking care of terror.”  This article and the next installment serve to substantiate the argument against the President’s perceptions on the role of NATO.   Pt. 2: A Brief Introduction to Russian Information Warfare […]

In the article Trump’s Unrealistic Expectations for NATO from earlier this week, The Fulda Gap critiqued Trump’s suggestion that NATO “wasn’t taking care of terror.” On one hand this statement is untrue, as NATO has offered its services in the form of training and AWACS communication and command aircrafts. On the other hand his statement […]

During President Trump’s campaign, he spoke out on several occasions stating that NATO is an “obsolete” alliance and a financial drain. Trump’s perceived obsolescence of the Alliance is mainly due to its lack of efforts against terror attacks. Another one of his main talking points was that European nations were not paying their fair share […]

It is a widely accepted fact that the Kurds of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are the coalition’s strongest allies on the ground fighting against Daesh/ISIS. Kurdish forces and their allies have liberated large swaths of northeastern Syria from Daesh (236 villages, 2,000 sq mi). However, the US has failed to equip these fighters as […]

The state of Turkey as we know it today emerged from the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, a region that encompassed the land we call the Middle East. However, having been the ruling center of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey’s role after World War I was much more influential over the other emerging nation states’ autonomy […]