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When China released footage of its “carrier killer” ballistic missiles being tested two years ago, the US Navy’s top admiral fired back, calling the...
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President Joe Biden’s ill-conceived and terribly executed Afghanistan withdrawal has already cast a shadow on transatlantic security, reenergizing the dreams of some in Europe...
How big of a problem is French disgruntlement with the AUKUS submarine deal? A phone call between French President Emmanuel Macron and US President...
Since the early post-9/11 days when a frightened America looked to the military to calm their fears, we have lionized any who wore the...
As the world continues to grapple with the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S. national security practitioners have once again returned to the question of...
Et tu, Marco? Florida senator Marco Rubio gave me heart palpitations this morning with the headline of his article over at The American Conservative:...
Remarks delivered at “Limes” Maritime Festival, Trieste, September 18, 2021. The organizers have asked me to appraise the U.S. strategic perspective on the Mediterranean...
Huzzah! The news broke this week that Australia, Great Britain, and the United States have forged a new alliance dubbed AUKUS, for Australia-U.K.-U.S. Among...
In a previous life, I was the foreign-affairs columnist for the local paper in my adopted hometown of Athens, Georgia. The month after 9/11...
China’s radar-evading fifth-generation fighter, the J-20 “Mighty Dragon,” is being sent to strategic areas around its borders. American and allied force planners should take...
Nuclear blackmail has emerged as a political bargaining chip for the Chinese. Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, warned on Sept. 13 that China’s...
What does the AUKUS deal mean for nuclear proliferation? The answer depends on how the deal plays out for Australia, and on the risk...
Increasing tension with China has the US military looking for ways to spread out across the Pacific in order to counter Beijing’s growing navy and...
There’s one piece of the $3.5 trillion spending bill that the media is unlikely to tell you about—their bailout. The massive, bloated $3.5 billion spending bill...
The National Defense Authorization Act emerged from the House Armed Services Committee this month with a major addition: $23.9 billion for more weapons, research...
The United States government enjoys a major advantage over the governments of most countries, including those in the European Monetary Union. It borrows in...
Despite already spending trillions of dollars on COVID-19 relief legislation, for the past few months, Democrats have been focused on designing the largest tax-and-spend...
For the past few years, it’s been an issue that bubbles up as a priority, then goes away. Then again surfaces with new reports,...
Increasingly, Russia and China are courting nations that have long relied on the United States as a security partner. Saudi Arabia and Russia recently...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has repeatedly condemned coups. Certainly, he had skin in the game: The 1997 “soft coup” led to the fall...
Beijing’s relentless drive to transform itself into a global power places it in direct competition with the U.S. That has affected both nations’ relations...
The people of Taiwan have been living in a parallel world since June 2020, with the island recording more than 250 consecutive days without any domestic...
As Cato has long pointed out, the law takes a paradoxical stance toward so‐called “off‐label” use of drugs approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration...
There’s clearly an open divide in the United States between those who are vaccinated and those who are not. But among those who are,...
Over the past year, most Americans already have received three stimulus checks in total—with the latest payments amounting to more than $400 billion approved...
Within a few years, you may have to convince your own car you’re fit to drive every time you get behind the wheel. The Biden...
In his first outing at the United Nations, President Joe Biden was bent on a singular mission: to show the world that he was...
What if an American grand strategy is not needed or necessary in the 21st century? If it means having one underlying strategy that responds...
Last week, former President Donald Trump took the trouble to express his displeasure about the removal from Richmond of a statue of Robert E....
The Korean nuclear crisis began around three decades ago. After years of negotiation, broken agreements, sanctions, threats of military preemption, and even presidential summitry,...
It has been a very busy week for missile tests on the Korean peninsula. North Korea tested a new type of ground‐launched cruise missile to start the week...
On September 11 and 12, North Korea successfully tested a new long-range cruise missile — yet another signal of the regime’s unabated expansion of...
As the dust is settling from the fallout of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Americans and allies will be conducting after-action reviews to determine...
When China released footage of its “carrier killer” ballistic missiles being tested two years ago, the US Navy’s top admiral fired back, calling the...
North Korea fired off two short-range ballistic missiles Wednesday, but unlike past North Korean missile launches, the missiles appear to have been fired from a...
Too much attention in defense circles of late has been focused on the need for new, revolutionary platforms and weapons systems. The reality is...
The question of Robert E. Lee’s legacy was once again thrown open last week when a statue of Lee was removed from Richmond, Virginia,...
Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nevada), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act...
