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President Joe Biden delivers a keynote address at the National Association of Counties Annual Legislative Conference, Tuesday, February 14, 2023, at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) President Joe Biden delivers a keynote address at the National Association of Counties Annual Legislative Conference, Tuesday, February 14, 2023, at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

The Embassy

Today’s crisis contrasts the genuine promise from just two years ago. Sudan, then working with the Trump administration, was making a serious reentry into...

Politics

Recent evidence indicates the Russian side has made tactical and operational improvements that are having an impact on the ground in Ukraine.

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

The U.S. Air Force doesn't have enough airplanes to go around to meet the demands of global presence and deterrence. 

Defense Feed

The global West’s disarray only encourages Xi Jinping’s belligerent tendencies.

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Robert Work is the Rick Grimes of U.S. Marine Corps force design, forever blazing away at faulty ideas.

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

In The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power, just out from Yale, Kaplan brings a bleak outlook drawn from Greek tragedy...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

So Carl von Clausewitz, when properly understood, was right about how wars do or do not end. Even after a resounding triumph, it behooves...

Dr. James Holmes: The Naval Diplomat - 19FortyFive

Sad to say, but rhetoric alone is not enough. It seems things must get worse in the commercial world before they get better for...

Smart Bombs

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Following a cross-border incursion launched from Ukraine, Belgorod, Russia residents have been relocated to other areas. 

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Russia may technically have control over Bakhmut for now, but time will only tell whether Russian forces can maintain control without the support of Wagner.  

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

A government watchdog has warned that the Pentagon is doing a poor job of keeping track of tens of thousands of spare parts, worth...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Germany will seek to buy back eighteen Leopard 2 main battle tanks (MBTs) along with a dozen self-propelled howitzers from Switzerland

Trillions

Trillions - 19FortyFive

“No corner of the global economy will be spared,” was what Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics told AP News in a...

Trillions - 19FortyFive

The USA can survive just fine with a three year pause on loan repayments. Repayments should be paused indefinitely, or forgiven outright.

Trillions - 19FortyFive

Russia is actually seeing the lowest unemployment in 30 years, and wages are still paid regularly. But the good times won't last.

Trillions - 19FortyFive

As China’s finance minister reminded then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulsen at the height of the 2008 Great Recession: America’s debt is a grave national security...

The Embassy

The Embassy

Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford - the largest warship on Earth - is expected to take part in drills with the Norwegian armed...

The Embassy

Coined by Zalmay Khalilzad in the late 1990s, the term “congagement” captures the basic idea that the United States can contain Beijing in military...

The Embassy

Your biological data is being targeted by the Chinese government for the creation of next-generation bioweapons. It is only a matter of time before...

The Embassy

America could come out looking like the great stabilizing force. Washington should call its nominal ally in Turkey, which is yearning for a peace between Ukraine...

Coronavirus

Coronavirus Chaos

Editor’s Note: As with all things COVID-19, we respect our author’s opinions and ideas on this issue – all of their ideas. With that...

Coronavirus Chaos

China’s dramatic shift from draconian restrictions to relaxed COVID-19 rules is likely to cause more economic disruptions than benefits. The poorly performing economy will...

Coronavirus Chaos

This was the year the word “tripledemic” entered the lexicon. That’s the term for the three different types of illnesses, COVID-19, flu, and RSV,...

Coronavirus Chaos

Perhaps as many as 90% of China’s 1.41 billion people will come down with COVID-19, said Feng Zijian, former deputy chief of China’s Center...

Politics News

Politics

It turns out that DeSantis has been partial to Disney in the past. In fact, he even got married there. 

Politics

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been brutally effective in implementing some of the most radical proposals in America that progressives love.

Politics

Lauren Boebert once again says something crazy and AOC can’t hold back: After the Colorado Congresswoman said she had a kid because it was...

Politics

DeSantis, Musk, and Carlson represent a less conventional, more populist version of conservatism that has been made more common by Donald Trump and the...

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

The North Korean threat is real. Pyongyang has proven in recent years that the DPRK intends to not only expand but modernize both its...

Hermit Kingdom

North Korea’s missile launches are in the headlines again, and a seventh nuclear test might be on the horizon. For most experts and pundits,...

Hermit Kingdom

Despite Biden’s best efforts with South Korea, the summit declaration merely puts a band-aid on a festering wound in the bilateral alliance. 

Hermit Kingdom

In recent days it has been reported in the Chosun Ilbo (one of South Korea’s most widely read daily newspapers) that if North Korea...

Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security

Covid-19 might be dominating the headlines these days, but other important issues still play out in the smaller font sizes. In last month’s executive summary of...