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April 21, 2022 Israel has a KC-46 problem. Here’s the solution. Eying growing and distinct threats that may require the United States and Israel to conduct long-range airstrikes, both militaries urgently need to replace their aging aerial refueling fleets with the modernized... April 21, 2022 New State Department Report Admits Iran May Be Hiding Nuclear Activities The Biden administration has “serious concerns” about “possible undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran,” according to an annual report the State Department released on Tuesday. The administration’s... April 21, 2022 China’s COVID-19 Crisis Threatens to Derail Xi’s Ambitious Economic Agenda The fallout from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping’s failed zero-COVID-19 policies threatens to undermine public trust in CCP governance in ways not seen since the Tiananmen era.... April 21, 2022 Economic and human security in the Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific is the planet’s most strategically important and dynamic region. From the east coast of Africa to the west coast of the Americas, changes are taking place that are likely to shape the... April 20, 2022 How Will President-Elect Yoon Manage The South Korea – U.S. Alliance And North Korea? What to Expect from the Yoon Administration on the ROK/U.S. Alliance and National Security – President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol will have a positive impact on the ROK/U.S. alliance and on the security of... April 20, 2022 North Korean Hackers Stole $620 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency, FBI Finds The FBI attributed a $620 million cryptocurrency theft to the North Korean hacking group Lazarus last week, while the Treasury Department sanctioned the digital wallet in which Lazarus had stashed the stolen... April 20, 2022 Ukraine war shows America could be outgunned without investing in energetics Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been a wake-up call. Footage of missile strikes and burned-out tanks reminds us that control of territory still matters, and that the explosive power behind munitions... April 20, 2022 The absence of an off-ramp Let’s acknowledge that we’re treading on dangerous ground. Russia is ruled by a thug who has launched a war intended to extinguish Ukraine as an independent nation. In 1990, there was a similar crisis.... April 19, 2022 Biden’s cybersecurity budget good start; Congress needs to fill the gaps Excerpt The White House released the President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2023 on the heels of the recently passed Consolidated Appropriations Act, which provided a jolt of cybersecurity funding... April 18, 2022 What is the Future of Cyber Deterrence? Excerpt Scholars and practitioners alike have debated the feasibility of applying deterrence models to cyberspace. Advocates of “cyber persistence theory,” for instance, posit that deterrence strategies... April 16, 2022 White House finally awakens to PRC capture of Solomon Islands Within days, Kurt Campbell, the US National Security Council Coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, and Daniel Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, will visit Solomon... April 15, 2022 The Lessons of Ukraine for Taiwan—and the U.S. Although Ukraine’s potential membership in NATO has been discussed for more than a decade and half, it is not a member—and so the alliance is not committed to defend it, nor to attempt to deter attacks... April 13, 2022 Iran Likely to Gain More Than $70 Billion From the Removal of Oil Sanctions Mohsen Khojastemehr, the CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company, said earlier this month that Iran’s oil production has returned to its pre-sanctions levels. While this claim may constitute an exaggeration,... April 13, 2022 ‘Caught Between a Hammer and an Anvil’ In between dodging assassination attempts, inspiring his people to fight back against invading Russian forces, and conversing with world leaders, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky took time out to address... April 13, 2022 China’s Embrace of the Taliban Complicates US Afghanistan Strategy “China is our most important partner and represents a fundamental and extraordinary opportunity for us,” Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said in September 2021, shortly after the Taliban retook... April 13, 2022 Bad neighbors With oceans to our east and west, and weak neighbors to our north and south, we Americans sometimes have a hard time understanding the plight of nations threatened by big, bad neighbors. Examples: China’s... April 12, 2022 Iran’s Centrifuge Manufacturing Goes Underground The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported last week that Iran is concentrating its centrifuge production equipment at two centrifuge manufacturing facilities — both likely located beneath... April 12, 2022 Senate Unanimously Approves Lend-Lease Act to Expedite Aid to Ukraine After months of delay, the Senate last Wednesday unanimously passed legislation to accelerate the delivery of defense equipment to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries. However, the House has yet... April 12, 2022 How Russia Could Earn Billions From Biden’s Revival of the Nuclear Deal With Iran The Biden administration has two goals that are at odds with each other. It wants to ratchet up economic pressure on Russia, and it wants to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The problem is the 2015... April 12, 2022 Justice Department Disrupts Russian Malware With Help from Private Sector The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last Wednesday it had detected and preemptively disabled Russian-installed malware on thousands of network devices in the United States and around the world. The... April 11, 2022 Biden, like Obama, talks tough but does little about Putin’s war crimes Will President Joe Biden’s cri de coeur “Putin is a war criminal” become former President Barack Obama’s “Assad must go?” Lofty words; noble intentions, for sure. But Obama came and went.... April 10, 2022 Uyghur Tribunal Emerges as a Model for Addressing War Crimes in Ukraine The retreat of Russian forces around Kiev has disclosed atrocities committed in Ukrainian towns such as Bucha. These crimes demand to be documented and the evidence brought to light. It is, however, naïve... April 9, 2022 The U.S. Should Sanction Gaza’s Popular Resistance Committees At a rally in late February, a spokesman for the Iranian-backed Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), Gaza’s third-largest terror group, boasted of his organization’s recent attacks against Israel. The... April 9, 2022 Putin’s war perverts a personal geography Bucha? That was the leafy Kyiv suburb where we spent a Saturday afternoon, eating ice cream cones and exploring a city park defined by neatly clipped hedges, classical sculptures and fathers teaching their... April 9, 2022 To be effective, US policy on PRC must be actioned early and often April 8th was the 10th anniversary of the start of the Scarborough Shoal standoff between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. A decade later, and in spite of an international court ruling... April 8, 2022 The Threat to the West Is Inside the House Russia’s Vladimir Putin may not occupy Ukraine anytime soon, but he is keeping two other European countries firmly in his fold. The results of recent, less than completely free and fair elections in Serbia... April 8, 2022 Manhunt Ensues After Terrorist Attack in Tel Aviv A manhunt continues in Tel Aviv after an individual armed with a gun carried out a shooting attack on Dizengoff street Thursday night. Two civilians were killed and at least ten injured in the assault,... April 8, 2022 Book Review: The Never Ending War One ideological goal that has animated foreign policy decision-making over the past three U.S. administrations has been a desire to retreat from “forever wars.” For Israel, such a fantasy-driven ambition... April 8, 2022 Virginia’s universities should not support China’s military Following Russia’s unprovoked assault on Ukraine, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) called for the commonwealth and local governments to cut ties with Russian entities. Youngkin’s entreaty was intended... April 7, 2022 Reducing Pressure on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Raises Risks for America The negotiations with Iran over a nuclear deal are stalled over one main issue: Tehran is insisting that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) be removed from the Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)... April 7, 2022 Israel Is Not Russia, and Palestinians Are Not Ukraine Russia’s invasion of Ukraine set off an immediate wave of boycotts and sanctions targeting Moscow. These swift and comprehensive economic punishments have left the frustrated activists of the Boycott,... April 7, 2022 It’s also important to win the information war with Putin’s Russia Excerpt The Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, accuses the West of plotting “an information war on Russia.” If only he were right. As Russia’s war in Ukraine continues, Vladimir... April 7, 2022 Putin’s winning streak in European politics n the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said triumphantly that ‘if Putin was seeking to divide the EU, to weaken Nato, and to break the international... April 6, 2022 The Ruthless Realpolitik of the United Arab Emirates “We are grateful for and committed to the partnership we have with the UAE,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said last week after meeting with Mohamed bin Zayed (MbZ for short), the crown prince... April 5, 2022 Why the IOC Doesn’t Deserve Gold for Its Olympics Campaign While more than 1 million Uyghurs and other minorities suffer mass detention, forced labor and torture in Xinjiang in western China, many of the world’s greatest athletes competed in Beijing at the... April 5, 2022 Iran’s Master Class in Evading Sanctions Excerpt The most important resource Tehran can share with Moscow is expertise in evading Western sanctions. Iran’s clerical regime reportedly is talking with the Kremlin about working together to get... April 4, 2022 Priority #1 for NATO: Upgrading Air and Missile Defense in Eastern Europe Russia’s launch of around 30 cruise missiles at a target in western Ukraine located just 12 miles from the Polish border came just one day after Moscow warned that convoys carrying Western arms... April 4, 2022 The Kremlin’s Latin American Echo Chamber On March 6, a ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine collapsed, as Russian forces shelled humanitarian corridors for Ukrainian civilians fleeing their besieged cities. But not according to TeleSur,... April 4, 2022 Corporate Transparency Would Reduce Systemic Cyber Risks After a year of headline-grabbing ransomware attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure, Americans have grown impatient with the lack of transparency from corporations. “Investors want to know more,” Securities... April 3, 2022 To Up the Pressure, Washington Must Sanction Russian ADRs After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the West has imposed an array of powerful Western sanctions on Moscow to pressure Vladimir Putin into backing down. But with Putin showing no real willingness to retreat,... April 3, 2022 How to Include Far More Lawfare Ammunition in Next UN General Assembly Resolution on Russian Invasion On March 24, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted its second resolution addressing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Both this and the first resolution, adopted on March 2, symbolically demonstrated... April 2, 2022 China moves frontline to Solomons, locals fight back Alexandria, VA: This is Beijing’s “Oh yeah? So what are you gonna do about it?” moment. With the confirmation of a security agreement between China and Solomon Islands—a country approximately 1200... April 1, 2022 Even when they fail to win, Iran’s Iraqi loyalists refuse to lose Benefitting from a skewed Supreme Court interpretation of the Iraqi constitution, Iran’s loyalists this week once again prevented the Iraqi parliament from electing a president, thus violating a constitutional... April 1, 2022 North Korea Looks to Capitalize on Washington’s Attention Deficit A serious problem does not go away if you ignore it. It instead grows uncontrollably. Case in point: President Joe Biden has largely ignored North Korea’s advancing nuclear, missile, and military programs.... April 1, 2022 Congress Invests in National Cyber Resilience but Misses Important Opportunities in the Consolidated Appropriations Act Congress’s newly completed annual appropriations bill provides significant funding increases for a number of critical cybersecurity programs, including for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security... April 1, 2022 Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: April March 31, 2022 Saving the Ayatollahs The Islamic Republic is in trouble. Its economy, heavily socialized and riddled with corruption, needs high-priced oil to stay afloat. Its politics are broken: Since the end of the 1990s, when a real reform... March 31, 2022 In Iniochos Exercise, Israel Rehearses Iran Strikes as Saudis Observe The Greek-hosted Iniochos 2022 military exercise began this week, with Athens welcoming military contingents from the United States, Israel, Cyprus, France, Italy, and Slovenia. The exercise, which also... March 31, 2022 Biden Administration Failing to Reform U.N.’s Palestinian Refugee Agency Its textbooks promote anti-Semitism and violence. Its previous leader resigned amid allegations of “misconduct, nepotism, retaliation . . . and other abuses of authority.” There is no question that... March 31, 2022 The Challenge of Containing a Nuclear Iran Start with a probable assumption: The Islamic Republic will soon be able to produce a nuclear weapon whenever the supreme leader decides to do so. A new atomic accord, currently being negotiated in Vienna,...

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