Where’s the strategy? After much fanfare, President Trump struck Syria in tandem with his French and British counterparts on the night of Friday 13th ostensibly to punish the government of Bashar al-Assad for using chemical weapons – crucially a claim which is still unproven. The high profile cruise and stand-off missile strikes appear to have done little real damage, underlining the shadowy nature of the double games being played out across the Middle East today. Questions w