TAC staffers talk to Jennifer Kavanagh of Defense Priorities. The post TAC Right Now: Iran War Accelerates U.S. Decline appeared first on The American Conservative .
Andrew Day and Luke Nicastro talk to Jennifer Kavanagh of Defense Priorities about the real munitions shortage and its implications for U.S.-China competition. Recorded August 4, 2026. The post TAC Right Now: Iran War Accelerates U.S. Decline appeared first on The American Conservative .Open
Introducing the July/August 2026 issue of The American Conservative. The post The Three-Month Excursion appeared first on The American Conservative .
Here at The American Conservative, we realize that the world is very large and very strange, and that there are many things worth writing about in newsmagazines. That is to say, we try to avoid repeating ourselves too much. But our readers may pardon us for publishing back-to-back issues that feature stories about the Iran War on the cover. Despite President Donald Trump’s oft-repeated promises that the war is just an “excursion,” peace has failed to heave into view three months on. Jennifer Kavanagh addresses the damage already done to American military policy. It makes grim reading, and emphasizes the need to end the war as soon as possible. Harrison Berger writes about one of the thorniest obstacles to such a conclusion: the…Open