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Ilan Berman

Washington, D.C.
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Senior VP, @afpc. Editor-in-Chief, STATECRAFT & STRATEGY. Views my own. Forbes contributor. Board member, RFE/RL and MBN. Sanctioned by Russia.
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France loses influence while Macron chases strategic autonomy

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By Ilan Berman
| Washington Times
OPINION: When it comes to geopolitics, few ideas have been as persistent as France’s long-running quest for “strategic autonomy” from the United States. For decades, successive governments in Paris have envisioned themselves as Europe’s indispensable power: a bridge between East and West and a key architect of a more pluralistic global order. That impulse has been given new life of late.
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National Security Notebook | Number 11, May 30, 2026

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By Ilan Berman
| Substack
Iranians are back online… sort of. By the time it started easing last week, the Iranian regime’s internet shutdown – which began in early January after the outbreak of yet another round of grassroots protests, then tightened again following the start of U.S.-Israeli military action in late February – had already earned the dubious distinction as being the longest of its kind in history. Those restrictions aren’t a thing of the past, exactly.
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Necessity Is the Mother of Reinvention for Iran | Opinion

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By Ilan Berman
| Yahoo
Heavyweight boxing legend Mike Tyson once remarked that “everyone has a strategy until they’re punched in the face.” The second, unspoken part of his observation was the importance of being able to regroup after your plan goes awry. Tyson was probably talking about the savage take-no-prisoners approach that in the 1980s earned him three world heavyweight titles and the moniker of the “baddest man on the planet.” But he could just as easily have been referring to Iran today.
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