New at The Atlantic: The Iran War Dial
The probability that the United States or Israel will strike the Islamic Republic in the next year is 48 percent according to a new project tracking the odds of conflict. More »
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Dominic Tierney is associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College. He is the author of How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War. More
The probability that the United States or Israel will strike the Islamic Republic in the next year is 48 percent according to a new project tracking the odds of conflict. More »
Answering the key questions around our new project estimating the odds of conflict with the Islamic Republic More »
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