In a 7,000-word essay for Foreign Affairs magazine published this week, Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, tried to sum up the state of the Middle East.

Sullivan’s faulty analysis, however, remains in the print version of his Foreign Affairs magazine article, which went to press five days before Hamas terrorists stormed Israel on Oct. 7, killing ...

JAKE SULLIVAN is U.S. National Security Adviser. He was National Security Adviser to the U.S. Vice President from 2013 to 2014 and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State from 2011 ...

Foreign Affairs Magazine made substantial changes to National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan's essay following the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh/Mustafa Hassona ...

Like Kennan, Sullivan doesn’t suffer from excessive modesty of purpose: The essay argued that Biden’s foreign policy of strategic competition with great-power rivals like China and Russia was ...