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October 28, 2022
US strong-arms allies into recognizing Iranian “equities”
On October 26, Amos Hochstein headed back to Lebanon for the “signing ceremony” for the maritime boundary deal Team Biden succeeded in imposing on Israel. Reflecting the farcical nature of what is bizarrely...
October 27, 2022
Analysis: Al Qaeda ideologue calls for jihad in Sudan, provides guidelines
Earlier this month, Bayt al Maqdis, a jihadi publishing house believed linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), released a book compiled of various letters written by the ideologue Abu Hudhayfah...
October 27, 2022
What’s Behind Israel’s Reluctance to Share Iron Dome With Ukraine?
Citing Russia’s increasing use of Iranian-made drones to conduct attacks in Ukraine, Kyiv asked Israel last week to provide its highly-effective Iron Dome missile defense system (among other...
October 27, 2022
Israel is Fighting to Prevent a Third Intifada
On Tuesday Israeli forces killed five Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank including Wadee al-Houh, leader of a new terror group, the Lion’s Den. The battle was part of Operation Breakwater, the biggest...
October 26, 2022
Harden the cybersecurity of US nuclear complex now
Given Vladimir Putin’s reckless talk about his potential use of Russian nuclear weapons, the United States must ensure its own nuclear stockpile is safe, secure, and reliable. Yet, for decades, the stewards...
October 26, 2022
Iran Is Now at War With Ukraine
Excerpt For the first time, Iran is involved in a major war on the European continent. Iranian military advisors, most likely members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are on the ground in occupied...
October 26, 2022
The U.N. goes def con 3 on Israel
Vladimir Putin is slaughtering Ukrainian men, women, and children. Xi Jinping’s is committing genocide against the Muslims of East Turkistan. Ali Khamenei is murdering Iranian girls for wearing their...
October 24, 2022
Shabaab assaults hotel in southern city of Kismayo
Yesterday, Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, conducted a large-scale siege on the Tawakal Hotel in Somalia’s southern city of Kismayo. At least nine civilians were murdered by the jihadist...
October 24, 2022
‘SBOM’ disclosure rules loom for federal software procurement
The Software Bill of Materials, or SBOM, disclosure requirement is coming for federal agencies and their contractors. Are managers and executives ready? An SBOM is a formal, machine-readable inventory...
October 23, 2022
Democracy Needs a New Sales Pitch
Excerpt In a recent address at Ditchley Park, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair described today’s moment as a global inflection point, a time akin to the early post-World War II years or after...
October 22, 2022
Time to Sanction Iranian Pilots
Last month, the Biden administration added four Iranian cargo planes to its U.S. Department of Commerce blacklist of aircraft involved in export control violations. Among the aircraft is a Boeing 747...
October 21, 2022
Don’t Let Up on North Korea
To the Editor: In “It’s Time to Accept That North Korea Has Nuclear Weapons” (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Oct. 13), Jeffrey Lewis urges the United States “to face reality” and stop pressing...
October 21, 2022
Xi’s Third Term Is a Gift in Disguise
Excerpt To exactly no one’s surprise, Xi Jinping will secure a third term atop the Chinese Communist Party at this week’s 20th Party Congress. Xi’s political triumph—which has been months, if...
October 21, 2022
Biden’s energy policy is empowering the West’s enemies
The story of how the Biden administration crippled American energy production is well known, as are the disastrous consequences of those actions. Yet those same energy policies have also played a critical,...
October 20, 2022
Turkey’s Opposition Is Paving Erdogan’s Path to Victory
Turkey is rapidly declining as a functioning state, and few in the country’s political elite seem to care. It has gone from being an imperfect democracy to an autocratic wasteland, and although President...
October 19, 2022
In War on Terror 2.0, the Watchword Is: ‘Be Careful for What You Wish’
“This is not acceptable,” said the wife of an arrested anti-abortion protester, bewildered at the show of force of heavily-armed FBI agents raiding their house. Together with other unarmed activists,...
October 19, 2022
How Iran’s Ethnic Divisions Are Fueling the Revolt
Excerpt The escalating wave of protests shaking Iran since Sept. 17 isn’t the first time the country’s theocratic regime has faced mass unrest. However, the current upheavals are exceptional in scope...
October 19, 2022
Truth or consequences
President Biden is hopping mad that Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince and, since last month, prime minister, refused his request not to cut oil production – or least to wait a month before doing...
October 18, 2022
Gaza-Based Factions Claim to Have Presence in the West Bank
Over the last several weeks, Gaza-based factions Mujahideen Brigades and the Popular Resistance Movement (PRM) have issued statements claiming they have established a presence in the West Bank amid a surge...
October 18, 2022
Iranian Shahed-136 Drones Increase Russian Strike Capacity and Lethality in Ukraine
Russia has conducted dozens of strikes against civilian and critical infrastructure targets across Ukraine over the past week, including with the Shahed-136 loitering munition. While the Shahed-136...
October 17, 2022
Biden’s New National Security Strategy: A Lot of Trump, Very Little Obama
Excerpt “The United States welcomes the rise of a stable, peaceful, and prosperous China.” These words from the Obama administration’s 2015 National Security Strategy already belong to a bygone...
October 16, 2022
US government sanctions several Shabaab officials and affiliated individuals
Today the United States government sanctioned a total of 14 individuals belonging to or associated with Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa. The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned a list of nine...
October 15, 2022
Scoring the Lebanon-Israel maritime deal
The headline-grabbing maritime boundary deal announced between Lebanon and Israel this week produced several winners and losers. Determining who is who is another matter. Leaders in each country claimed...
October 14, 2022
It’s time for the US to revoke China’s ‘normal trade’ status
Excerpt In April 2022, six weeks after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden signed legislation to suspend Russia’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status. “Revoking PNTR from Russia,” he said,...
October 14, 2022
A new reality means Israel will have to strike Lebanon
Iran and the US have been moving along two parallel lines when it comes to restoring the 2015 nuclear deal. Despite President Joe Biden’s willingness to make major concessions through his envoy Rob...
October 13, 2022
4 Steps to Mitigate Active Shooter Threats
Some of America’s recent high-profile tragedies once again underscore the connection between building design and keeping people — customers, staff, students, tenants — safe from harm should crisis...
October 12, 2022
If Putin Uses Nukes in Ukraine, the U.S. Must Respond with Military Force
Excerpt In the 21st century, it is still madness to believe there can be an acceptable use of nuclear weapons. During the Cold War, it was clear that the consequence of a nuclear attack would be mutual...
October 12, 2022
America’s arsenal is in need of life support
The United States is set to face a raft of consequences if urgent measures are not taken to expand its production capacity for military munitions. For many years, the Defense Department and Congress together...
October 12, 2022
Manny and Scholtzy palaver with Vova
H.L. Mencken is said to have observed that for every problem there is a solution that is “neat, plausible, and wrong.” People I like, admire, and usually agree with are now proposing such...
October 11, 2022
North Korea’s Provocations: Time For An Asymmetric Approach
Do not fear North Korea’s provocations. They are a standard expression of leader Kim Jong Un’s three-pronged strategy, which is built on political warfare, blackmail diplomacy, and advanced warfighting...
October 11, 2022
Yeah, Buoy!!!
The citizens of the State of Israel were informed last week that the caretaker government of Prime Minister Yair Lapid was about to trade several hundred square miles of their potentially resource rich...
October 10, 2022
Israel trades gas fields for a line of buoys
The citizens of the state of Israel were informed this past weekend that the caretaker government of Prime Minister Yair Lapid was about to trade several hundred square kilometers of Israel’s potentially...
October 10, 2022
When Will Biden Put Pressure on North Korea?
Your editorial “The Missiles of North Korea” (Oct. 5) argues that the Biden administration should respond to North Korea’s intermediate-range ballistic-missile launch over Japan by strengthening “the...
October 10, 2022
Anti-Israel Gridlock Makes Kuwait The Odd Man Out
Excerpt Among the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Kuwait is the odd man out. Mired in chronic political gridlock, the oil-rich nation appears to have no intention of following its neighbors to...
October 9, 2022
Russia’s Sham Ukraine Vote Undermines Serbia’s Kosovo Claims
Vladimir Putin proclaimed Russia’s annexation of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia Regions of Ukraine on Friday, Sep. 30, stating that they “are becoming [Russia’s] compatriots forever.”...
October 6, 2022
Europe must trigger snapback of UN sanctions on Iran
Excerpt France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States have pursued a bifurcated Iran policy: attempting to revive an expiring nuclear deal while tolerating the Islamic Republic’s brutal repression...
October 6, 2022
How Far Will Xi Go to Help a Desperate Putin?
Excerpt Anyone who has been in a relationship knows there are good days and not so good days. While trust and respect are the bedrock of healthy partnerships, transactional and even toxic relationships...
October 6, 2022
A Match Made in Heaven: The Hezbollah-Amal Nexus
Excerpt Over the past decades, Hezbollah has built a well-oiled, multi-billion-dollar illicit finance and drug-trafficking machine in Latin America that launders organized crime’s ill-gotten gains through...
October 6, 2022
Israel-EU annual meeting after decade hiatus
Israel and the European Union held an Association Council meeting On Monday, a ministerial-level dialogue that is supposed to occur once a year but has been on hold for nearly a decade. As expected, there...
October 5, 2022
The World Cup Won’t Clean Up Qatar’s Image
Doha’s $220 billion public relations stunt is crashing and burning. By halftime of its inaugural game on September 9, the 2022 World Cup’s flagship stadium ran out of water. Panicked fans got a taste...
October 5, 2022
How Biden Can Stand With the Iranian People
“These men have not slept for nights.” That’s what Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, the chief of the Islamic Republic’s judiciary, said about Iran’s security forces in a recently leaked video....
October 5, 2022
The problem with despots
We’re inclined to believe that those who rule nations, however despotic they may be, are not so different from us. Surely they weigh costs and benefits, are open to compromise, and prefer peace to war....
October 4, 2022
Biden’s Anti-Corruption Agenda Finds Its Test Case: Paraguay
Excerpt U.S. President Joe Biden has defined the fight against global corruption as a “core United States national security interest” and made it an official priority for his administration. Now,...
October 3, 2022
Shabaab conducts triple suicide bombing in central Somalia
As military operations continue against the group across much of central Somalia, Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, retaliated today with a triple suicide car bombing in the city of Beledweyne. According...
October 3, 2022
AUKUS Special Operations Forces in Strategic Competition, Integrated Deterrence, and Campaigning: Resistance to Malign Activities
On September 15, 2021, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States formed AUKUS(Open Link in new window), which is described as a trilateral security partnership designed to make it easier to...
October 3, 2022
U.S. military kills wanted Shabaab leader in airstrike in Somalia
The U.S. military killed a senior Shabaab leader in an airstrike in a terrorist haven in southern Somalia on Oct. 1. Abdullahi Yare, the Shabaab commander who was killed, had a $3 million reward out for...
October 2, 2022
US moves on Pacific islands, but barely
Alexandria, Va.: Bear with me. This is a bit complicated. But it’s important. And, it’s not going away. Over the past twenty years or so, the Chinese Communist Party has aggressively extended its...
October 2, 2022
Biden’s Chance to Restore American Dignity in Iran
Excerpt The Islamic Republic’s impasse has once more exploded in the streets. The triggering event was the killing of Mahsa Amini by Iran’s morality police last month. But the tension—the rot in...
September 30, 2022
The North Korean Crypto Threat
Excerpt North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea “DPRK”) presents a fundamental and growing international security challenge – and now represents the most serious nation-state risk...
September 29, 2022
As Winter Approaches, Europe Is Walking Off a Cliff
Facing the worst energy crisis since World War II as the cold-weather heating season starts, Europe continues to dither. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has presented a series of new...
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