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The head of U.S. Strategic Command Admiral Charles Richard has been describing China’s nuclear weapons expansion as a “strategic breakout.” He used the term...
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Last week, former President Donald Trump took the trouble to express his displeasure about the removal from Richmond of a statue of Robert E....
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...
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,...
If slow is bad, late is worse when it comes to competing with China. But it seems Congress is poised to enact yet another...
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...
You have to be there to combat terrorism—or any other martial challenge for that matter. This is Strategy 101: the likely victor is the...
This week over at the Global Times, Deng Xiaoci has the story of how China intends to regulate shipping in China’s “territorial waters” starting...
It’s a truism in the halls of professional military education schoolhouses that the enemy gets a vote in the success or failure of our...
August marked the 79th anniversary of the first special-operations raid directly supported by submarines. Decades later, submarine special-operations have become a staple of the...
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...
Too much attention in defense circles of late has been focused on the need for new, revolutionary platforms and weapons systems. The reality is...
Bob Dylan highlighted that change is constant, and one needs to get on board or get out of the way. The military is facing...
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...
It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Judging by our recent stubbornly high inflation numbers and the bubbles...
Democratic leaders in the House and Senate are hoping to pass a $1 trillion bill to fund infrastructure and a $3.5 trillion bill to...
In one impetuous act, France demonstrated the bankruptcy of its foreign policy, its national pointlessness, and the broader obsolescence of NATO. On Friday, Paris...
President Joe Biden frequently uses the phrase “America is back” to contrast his foreign policy with his predecessor’s and has followed through by reversing...
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...
Don’t let the official talking points coming out of the White House fool you. With its recent, disastrous execution of the U.S. withdrawal from...
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...
What if an American grand strategy is not needed or necessary in the 21st century? If it means having one underlying strategy that responds...
The Washington Post published a bombshell report on Tuesday that claims the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark A. Milley, took...
We remember presidents by adjectives. Wilson was professorial, Kennedy debonair, Reagan grandfatherly, Clinton slick, and Trump, well, unique. As for our forty-fifth, there’s a...
This week has been dominated by remembrances of the attacks of September 11, which left a psychological scar on everyone who lived through it....
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...
The Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, a failed war in a region of little strategic interest to America, was entirely justified. Nevertheless, the move worried U.S....
The head of U.S. Strategic Command Admiral Charles Richard has been describing China’s nuclear weapons expansion as a “strategic breakout.” He used the term...
President Joe Biden is doing the unthinkable. On the 20th anniversary of the dark day that terrorists struck New York City and Washington, D.C.,...
Debates about America’s exit from Afghanistan, both the underlying withdrawal decision and its execution, will, with good reason, roil U.S. politics for years. Starting...
On June 26, 2021, assailants kidnapped 24-year-old Ikran Tahlil Farah, a cyber-expert in Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), near her home in...
It is time to get serious about shoring up NATO’s defensive capabilities in Eastern Europe. Russia continues to undertake activities designed to intimidate NATO...
