Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter’s areas of expertise include American foreign policy, national security, arms control, the Middle East, Iran and Russia. He recently wrote “the rift between the CIA and Donald Trump…may not be such a bad thing” given that the president is “pushing a policy of reconciliation with Russia that the CIA neither supports nor is equipped to effectively advise him on.” In addition to his impeccable credentials, Ritter is an electrifying public speaker who is world-renowned for correctly insisting Iraq had no significant weapons of mass destruction when the Bush administration claimed otherwise. His eighth book, Deal of the Century: How Iran Blocked the West’s Road to War, will be published in June.

Recent articles by Scott Ritter

The most successful military raid of this century: the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel

The most successful military raid of this century: the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel

There is a truism that I often cite when discussing the various analytical approaches to assessing the wide variety of geopolitical problems facing the world today—you can’t solve a problem unless you first properly define it. The gist of the argument is quite simple—any solution which has nothing to do with the problem involved is, literally, no solution at all.