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Rodger Shanahan

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 22, 2026
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Jul 12, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 22, 2026 · Rodger Shanahan

    Israel may soon learn occupation and devastation are no guarantee of security (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Militaries are rarely good occupiers. Time and demographics usually wear down the occupying power, and the reasons why occupation initially made sense rarely apply at the end. A displaced population will want their land back, making life increasingly hard for the occupiers and their political masters. Next year will mark 60 years that Israel has occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, while Syr

  2. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Rodger Shanahan

    Trump chose to go it alone against Iran. Now he’s learning the value of friends (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The idea that success has many fathers and failure is an orphan is a maxim that can be as readily applied to the way nations approach problems in the Middle East as to many other areas of life. The Middle East is a complex region where patience, diplomacy and coalition-building often succeeds where military adventurism doesn’t. Wise leaders understand this, foolish ones don’t. And US President Don

  3. Article · Aug 2, 2026 · Rodger Shanahan

    Trump’s ‘short war’ is spiralling out of control. His personal failings were the trigger (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. President Donald Trump has lost control of the war against Iran. If there was any doubt, that was dispelled on Sunday when the US State Department urged Americans across the Middle East to leave the region, or to prepare to leave at short notice, after both Trump and Iran rapidly escalated their threats. Trump’s war with Iran has now metastasised into a conflict that is consuming the entire region

  4. Article · Jul 12, 2026 · Rodger Shanahan

    How an assassination by Trump and Netanyahu set up a victory for their enemy (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It is quite possible that when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pitched his poorly thought-out plan for an air power-delivered regime change in Iran to President Donald Trump, he promised that Iranians would pour into the streets in their hundreds of thousands once the US and Iran had eliminated Iran’s Supreme Leader. And so it came to pass, only not in the way that the Israeli prime minister env

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