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The Biden administration is working quickly to make good on its rhetoric about making America’s alliance relationships great again. East Asia has been the primary...
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Last Thursday after talks between the United States, NATO, and Russia wrapped their third and final day, Michael Carpenter, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization...
In the debate on North Korea, China inevitably plays a large role. It is a treaty ally of Pyongyang, and more than 90% of...
Why does North Korea seem so quiet? Russia has sent troops into Kazakhstan and threatens Ukraine. China menaces Taiwan and the South China Sea....
American Who Spent 182 Days on the Battlefield Speaks Out on Ukraine and Russia: One US civilian has been to Ukraine and seen the...
Earlier this month War on the Rocks carried an interview with General David Berger, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. The interview was mostly...
Warship design is a political process as much as an engineering challenge. Never was that more true than during the interwar decades, the heyday...
A Chilean friend asks whether the craze for building “icebreakers or polar ships” will continue and whether it’s coming to the Antarctic. My rambling...
David Berger wants to give Xi Jinping an ulcer. Early this month the U.S. Marine Corps commandant signed out the “Concept for Stand-in Forces,”...
Tensions with Russia over Ukraine continue to ebb and flow with a recent massive cyberattack against the Ukrainian government, showcasing what an actual conflict...
Russia’s New Derivatsiya Vehicle A Big Rapid-Firing Gun to Shoot Down Drones, Missiles: Russia’s long-range surface-to-air missile systems such as the S-400 and S-500...
Is the Era of Large Naval Warships Over? At an ASPI conference a few years ago, I remarked that I thought that major surface combatants...
Amid Pandemic Labor Shortage, the Army Increases Bonuses to $50,000: The military, specifically the US Army has seen what the job outlook is appearing...
Today’s disturbing inflation numbers showing consumer price inflation now running at 7 percent, coupled with the stock market’s rocky 2022 start, underline the difficult...
Who Are the Top 5 NFL QBs Just Before the Playoffs and Who Takes Home the Super Bowl?: If you think that political discussions...
Could the US Economy’s Various Problems Cost Joe Biden at the Polls?: James Carville, Bill Clinton’s political strategist, famously said that when it came to...
Should Tom Brady Still Be in New England?: Divorces rarely end well for both parties, even if both sides have the best intentions. When...
Russian Aggression in Ukraine Following Irregular Warfare Playbook: The tense situation in Ukraine isn’t likely to end soon and as Russian troops surround Ukraine...
A gunman identified as Muhammad Siddiqui today entered a Colleyville, Texas synagogue and is holding the rabbi and an unknown number of congregants hostage....
With roughly 100,000 Russian troops and heavy equipment massed in a long arc along its border, Ukraine is currently preparing for a full-scale Russian...
This week’s announcement that a bipartisan group of House and Senate members have created an Abraham Accords Caucus to encourage more Arab-Israeli normalization agreements...
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...
Freshmen Democrat Sens. Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly don’t seem a drain-the-swamp type nor mavericks ready to buck the party bosses. But they introduced...
Members of Washington, D.C.’s unofficial but bipartisan War Party thrive on bad news. Vladimir Putin is marching on Ukraine. Xi Jinping is reviving the...
In the aftermath of last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, I wrote in these pages that, “unless decisive action is taken – quickly...
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, said the committee could be “obligated”...
Shared Sino-American Interests Could Slow the Slide toward Cold War: It is now fairly obvious that the United States and China are sliding toward...
Big-Bang Deals with North Korea Fail; Go Small and Build Up: South Korean President Moon Jae-In’s term ends in March. He was an extraordinary...
If North Korea will Halt Its Provocations, then an End-of-War Declaration is Worth it: 1945 has hosted a vigorous debate on an ‘end of...
The big change last year in Korean security was the return of the reality of multilateral sanctions as genuine international law constraining South Korea’s...
The Biden administration is working quickly to make good on its rhetoric about making America’s alliance relationships great again. East Asia has been the primary...
Editor’s Note: This is part two of a two-part series on what a U.S.-China war over Taiwan could look like. You can read part...
Monetary policy can only do so much: it cannot permanently increase the wealth of a nation. That is the lesson from economic history. In...
Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part series detailing a U.S.-China war over Taiwan. You can read part two here. There are...
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP, for short, is the new kid on the block–at least when trade is concerned....
