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Robert Kagan has taken to the pages of Foreign Affairs (where else?) to argue for American internationalism. The author of several books, Kagan is...
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America Should Strike a Deal to Take Over Russia’s Syria Tartus Naval Base: The 53-year rule of the Assad family is over. Assad has...
The Lesson Other Countries Must Take from Assad’s Collapse: After more than 13 years of civil war, the final offensive and collapse of the...
Key Points: The Syrian army has collapsed, echoing the dramatic falls of the Afghan and South Vietnamese armies. Years of reliance on proxy forces,...
Imperial Japan guessed poorly at Pearl Harbor. It misjudged the impact of its actions on a peacetime strategic competitor, made a foe of that...
Over at the Atlantic Council, former director of U.S. Navy strategy and operational concepts Bruce Stubbs probes “Ten Challenges to Implementing Force Design 2030.” Force...
It’s starting to feel like 1953 again, this time in Ukraine. That year is when the Koreas and their allies agreed on an armistice,...
I think Theodore Roosevelt would be dismayed at the state of global order today. It seems to be in retreat, or rather under concerted...
A friend serving in the U.S. Army asks: how can army leaders get their message about the army’s role in Pacific strategy to “resonate”...
Key Points: The U.S. Air Force is reviving mothballed B-1B Lancer bombers from the “Boneyard” at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base to maintain its fleet...
Key Points: The F-16 Fighting Falcon, a versatile workhorse of the U.S. Air Force, once vied for a spot on U.S. Navy supercarriers as...
Key Points: Rumors of the hypersonic aircraft SR-91 Aurora have persisted since the 1980s, sparking intrigue about a secret U.S. fleet capable of Mach...
Key Points: The SR-71 Blackbird, designed by Kelly Johnson, remains the fastest crewed jet in history, achieving sustained speeds above Mach 3.2. Its unparalleled...
Donald Trump’s Poisoned Economic Chalice: Today’s solid employment report, together with a stock market setting records day after day, seems to confirm the conventional...
On paper, Scott Bessent appears to be a fine choice for Treasury Secretary in the incoming Trump administration. Indeed, who could be better qualified...
Key Points: The debate over how many B-21 Raider stealth bombers the U.S. Air Force should build hinges on cost, capability, and strategic needs....
In early 2008 Ben Bernanke’s Federal Reserve downplayed at great cost the downside risks to the economy coming from the subprime loan crisis. Today,...
On 9/11, Sunni Islamism attacked the U.S. and suffered a crushing American response that allowed Iranian Shia Islamism to rise and dominate parts of...
Syrian opposition forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a radical Sunni group, continue to make lightening advances against the Assad regime as his...
South Korean Democracy Just Survived a Stress Test: Late Monday night, South Korean President Yoon Seok-Yeol declared martial law. That requires validation by the...
Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan is playing with and stoking fires in Syria. Following the major military offensive mounted by the Salafi-jihadist forces of Hayat...
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) has reignited concerns about the relationship between Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, does not believe that federal mask mandates will return even...
There has been just enough distance and peace from COVID-19 restrictions and paranoia to let the horrible memories of those terrible two years fade...
Kirillov didn't just suggest that the United States was responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic but also claimed that the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and...
Who’s up next for the toughest job in the world? Secretary of Defense is probably the single most difficult job in the US government,...
Apart from the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving is the most quintessentially American holiday celebrated in the United States. What it lacks in the muscular...
Those who seek peace in Gaza, however, should remember that this war is like most others: one party attacked, the other counter-attacked, and, for...
Time is a precious commodity in Israel’s fight against Hamas terrorists. As Israel prepares to enter Hamas’s final stronghold, Rafah, the United States should...
If Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has anything to say about it, sunny North Korea may soon become the next hot tourist destination for...
We have a habit of thinking of China and North Korea as allies. Indeed, China’s Mao Zedong once described the two as being “as...
North Korea has provided support in the civil wars in Ethiopia, Angola, Sri Lanka, and Yemen. Though the number of troops was small, North...
A vague North Korean-Russia alignment adds a new headache to East Asian security. But without China, it is still underpowered.
Robert Kagan has taken to the pages of Foreign Affairs (where else?) to argue for American internationalism. The author of several books, Kagan is...
By any objective measure, strikes against secondary facilities in retaliation for targeting key state assets show restraint. Such were President Joe Biden’s February 25...
Though it should have happened a decade or more ago, it is imperative now that policymakers in Washington acknowledge the painful reality that our...
Sports imitates life. And vice versa. Over at Sports Illustrated last week, Connor Orr put forth an intriguing analysis of “Why the Patriots’ Open...
Over at the Washington Post is an interesting story about how Russia is not so happy that the Biden Administration only gave them a...
