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October 6, 2023
Somalia suffers worst month on record for suicide bombings
In September 2023, Somalia suffered the most suicide bombings (and attempts) in a single month since Shabaab began utilizing the tactic in 2006. At least 14 attempted and successful suicide bombings were...
October 6, 2023
Israel must rely only on itself when it comes to existential threats
One of the cornerstones of Israel’s National Security Strategy, from Ze’ev Jabotinsky in 1923, to Ben Gurion in 1953 and Netanyahu in 2018, is the determination that Israel will defend itself...
October 6, 2023
Congressional inaction damages both Ukrainian and US militaries
The Pentagon recently warned Congress in a statement and a letter that it is running low on funds to support Ukraine and replenish U.S. military stocks. The longer that Congress waits to pass additional...
October 4, 2023
Stopgap measure includes extension of COFA provisions for FSM, RMI, Palau
On Oct. 1, U.S. government financial support and federal services expired in the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands, two of the three U.S. freely associated states. The third is...
October 4, 2023
Code Pink’s Ukraine policy
In 2011, President Obama withdrew all U.S. troops from Iraq. The result was the rise of the Islamic State followed by Tehran’s deeper penetration into Iraq. Can we agree that Mr. Obama made a grievous...
October 3, 2023
Erdogan is Here to Stay
Since the conclusion of Turkey’s presidential elections in May, much analysis has rightly focused on the implications of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s third term from both domestic and foreign...
October 3, 2023
Memo to Biden: The United Nations Won’t Love You Back
As President Biden visited New York last month to attend the United Nations General Assembly, the U.N. system proved itself as broken as ever — continuing to bite the U.S. taxpayer...
October 2, 2023
DISARMing cyber threats with ATT&CK: A winning combination
In today’s tech-driven world, where democracies and societies teeter on a tightrope, the White House and the EU are joining forces to confront a common threat: foreign information manipulation and interference...
September 30, 2023
Putin is opening up a new front against the West
In the face of mounting tensions, Vladimir Putin’s overarching strategic objective is now clear: to dismantle NATO and expose the alliance’s vulnerabilities. With Russia experiencing setbacks in...
September 30, 2023
Small steps to a Saudi-Israel ‘mega-deal’
US President Joe Biden’s Middle East strategy is earning its nickname: the “de-escalation” doctrine. Washington has in recent months gone out of its way to strike mini-agreements with...
September 29, 2023
Hold Iran accountable for expelling nuclear inspectors
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear provocations continue to mount. The clerical regime on Sept. 16 barred one-third of all International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors from the country’s...
September 29, 2023
The New Middle East? An Israeli official goes to Riyadh while a Saudi official visits Ramallah
Unprecedented public moves have been coming from Riyadh toward both Jerusalem and Ramallah in the past few weeks. Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Salman (MBS) stated during an interview with Fox News...
September 28, 2023
Iran’s new hijab law reflects on regime’s desperation
Iran’s police state just got even more draconian. Last week, Tehran’s parliament passed a law that would strengthen penalties against women who fail to wear the mandatory hijab, or headscarf. It’s...
September 28, 2023
Strategic cooperation between Israel and the United States, on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.
Israel will soon mark the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a war which is a national trauma for the young State of Israel and a personal trauma...
September 27, 2023
How US taxpayer dollars line the pockets of Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad
Presidents and prime ministers descended on Manhattan the past two weeks to take part in the 78th annual session of the UN General Assembly. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took the stage at Turtle...
September 27, 2023
Reading the UNGA tea leaves
The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened this month with dictators and elected leaders alike – the U.N. does not prefer one or the other – descending upon New York City to deliver...
September 26, 2023
U.S. military captures ISIS official in helicopter raid in Syria
The U.S. military captured an Islamic State “Operational and Facilitation official” during an operation in northern Syria last weekend. The raid marked the latest against the Islamic State’s network...
September 26, 2023
Russian Propaganda Targets the Use of Depleted Uranium in Ukraine
The Russian disinformation machine has zeroed in on its latest target: U.S. plans to provide depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine. The Biden administration announced earlier this...
September 26, 2023
Washington is finally sending Ukraine long-range missiles. Now it’s Berlin’s turn
While meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart last week, US President Joe Biden reportedly promised to grant Kyiv’s longstanding request for the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS. Although...
September 25, 2023
Realism meets reality
Following Vladimir Putin’s failed attempt to seize Kyiv in 2022, liberals...
September 22, 2023
Israel must not roll the dice when it comes to nuclear threats
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held important meetings with President Joe Biden this week, as well as with other world leaders. But the highlight will be his speech at the United Nations General Assembly....
September 22, 2023
Russia’s Influence in the Balkans
As the war in Ukraine continues, Russia, with the help of its ally Serbia, is provoking chaos in the Balkans to distract the West. The Kremlin’s goal is to exacerbate the existing perilous ethnic tensions...
September 22, 2023
Will the Russia-Ukraine War lead to World War III?
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, recently warned attendees at the Kiev Security Forum that “World War III is already underway.” He may be onto something. The...
September 22, 2023
Russia failed to weaken NATO — but its own security alliance is now falling apart
Vladimir Putin has been candid about his intentions to dismantle NATO and discredit Article 5 of the alliance’s founding treaty, in which members pledge to defend each other from...
September 21, 2023
Insecurity in the Black Sea Puts Upward Pressure on the Global Oil Market
The global oil price is edging toward $100 a barrel. If oil remains high, it will be difficult to bring inflation down. Most blame the Saudi Arabian and Russian oil cuts for the price increase and ignore...
September 21, 2023
Treasury sanctions Hezbollah’s network in Colombia, but what took so long?
The Biden administration wants to create the impression it is finally getting tough on Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group and Iranian proxy. The Treasury Department’s sanctions last...
September 21, 2023
Palestinians Need their own Vision 2030
A week after Israel and Saudi Arabia signed an MOU for the establishment of a seven-nation, cross-border, ship-to-rail transit network, Saudi media reported that Riyadh has suspended normalization...
September 21, 2023
Mr. Erdoğan in New York: A Transactional Foreign Policy Should be Repaid in Kind
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in New York this week for the UN General Assembly and side meetings with world leaders. Before going, he voiced his frustration with the Biden administration’s...
September 21, 2023
Why it’s important to continue our support for Ukraine
As House GOP opposition to the latest proposed supplemental support for Ukraine shows, Republican support for aid to Ukraine as it fights naked Russian aggression on its territory continues to...
September 21, 2023
Israel’s Less-Than-Secret War Against the Iranian Nuclear Program
Excerpt The United States and Israel share a goal of keeping Iran from being a nuclear state, but the two nations have undertaken vastly different measures to achieve that aim. In 2016, Barack Obama...
September 20, 2023
An Evolving Threat Landscape: Composite Violent Extremism and Prevention Efforts
Excerpt Introduction A year before William Atchison carried out the 2017 Aztec High School shooting in New Mexico, killing two people before taking his own life, the FBI had investigated him for...
September 20, 2023
Will China Replace America in the Gulf Region? Saudi Chinese Relations and Potential Obstacles
In December 2022, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Saudi Arabia and held two summits: One with Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz and his son Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman (MBS) and another...
September 20, 2023
How China Uses Shipping for Surveillance and Control
Ninety percent of the world’s trade is shipped by sea, bringing finished goods, components, and commodities to markets around the globe. But maritime trade is not only critically important—it’s also fragile, easily disrupted by pandemics, port bottlenecks, or large ships getting stuck in canals. ...
September 20, 2023
Martyrs – and newsmen – for freedom
“I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom,” George W. Bush famously said. I’ve never been convinced. I think plenty of people don’t give a fig about freedom...
September 19, 2023
Finland Takes Step to Combat Antisemitism, But More Can Be Done
Finland’s scandal-ridden new government recently published a policy to combat racism and bigotry, including antisemitism and Holocaust denial. The government has dealt with numerous crises stemming...
September 19, 2023
Wiring a 6G world
A new generation of telecommunications standards is emerging: In the years ahead, the 5G era will give way to 6G. This will catalyze a new scramble for market and technological influence. ...
September 18, 2023
China is edging out the US military’s advantage on tech
The future of warfare and military capability is taking center stage as the war in Ukraine rages, Moscow looks to reload its high-tech missile inventory and, in a possible portent of future conflict, the U.S. and China escalate geopolitical maneuvering against one another. ...
September 17, 2023
Anatomy of a Catastrophe
America marked a grim anniversary on August 30. That was the date, two years ago, when the United States ended its military presence in Afghanistan. The war that began there in the wake of the September...
September 17, 2023
War flashbacks in Guam as China projects power in the Pacific
Guam, USA Hours after Imperial Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, it captured Guam—American territory. The reason why was described by Guam Governor Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero in her August 24th Congressional testimony: “From...
September 15, 2023
Ukraine Might Finally Get ATACMS. Here’s What That Means.
Media reports suggest Washington may soon grant Kyiv’s longstanding request for the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS. While not a silver bullet, ATACMS would provide Ukraine with valuable...
September 15, 2023
From Non-Alignment to Realignment
The US and India expanded cooperation across various domains in the second reporting period of 2023. The two moved to materialize projects and initiatives that were conceived in the first quarter,...
September 14, 2023
Hostages and a Nuclear Illusion
Excerpt Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei leads the Eid al-Fitr prayer at Grand Mosalla Mosque of Tehran on April 22, 2023. (Photo by Iranian Leader Press Office / Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) It’s...
September 13, 2023
Biden’s Iran hostage deal imperils Israel and the rest of the world
This week’s U.S.-brokered hostage exchange with Iran has Jerusalem on edge. The United States is providing Israel’s greatest adversary with billions in sanction relief while making major...
September 13, 2023
Cyber risk is business risk, and the SEC knows it
A long overdue policy change to improve corporate governance on cybersecurity is taking effect. At the end of July, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new rules requiring...
September 13, 2023
Mahmoud Abbas’ Jewish problem
Once upon a time, Mahmoud Abbas inspired hope. Elected president of the Palestinian Authority after Yasser Arafat’s death in 2004, he wore a tie and jacket, not battle fatigues. He was a nationalist,...
September 12, 2023
Biden has a secret, illegal deal with Iran that gives mullahs everything they want
In the latest phase of an unacknowledged and unlawful nuclear deal between the United States and Iran, President Joe Biden this week formally approved giving the world’s leading state sponsor...
September 12, 2023
Don’t give more money to the UN’s failed Palestinian refugee agency
Excerpt With heavy fighting continuing inside a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is asking countries for an emergency bailout...
September 11, 2023
On eve of 9/11 Anniversary, U.S. officials continue to downplay Al Qaeda’s presence in Afghanistan
On the eve of the 22nd anniversary of Al Qaeda’s deadly attacks on New York and Washington, American intelligence officials further minimized the terror group’s safe haven in Afghanistan and its...
September 11, 2023
Israeli and Ukrainian Relations Are Essential; Is Rosh Hashanah Development a Hopeful Sign?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, in order to come to an agreement on Jewish pilgrims visiting the Ukranian town...
September 11, 2023
Analysis: Setting the stage for Mali’s near future
Mali’s immediate and near future prospects for security are immensely bleak. France, and many of its international counter-terrorism partners, are long gone. The United Nations’ peacekeeping mission...
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