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April 5, 2023
Biden weakness on Russia’s hostage-taking puts Americans abroad at risk
Russian President Vladimir Putin dealt a significant blow to the safety of Americans living and traveling abroad last week with the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. With...
April 5, 2023
Lessons of the energy crisis
Energy policy is national security policy. So when political leaders get energy policy wrong, they get national security policy wrong. An obvious example: Germany for years eagerly increased its dependence...
April 1, 2023
Former Malaita Premier (and Noted China Critic) Gets Bipartisan Support for US Visa
One day soon, Daniel Suidani, the former premier of Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, will walk into his interview for a U.S. short-term visa. Again. His first application, a few weeks ago, was denied. This...
April 1, 2023
With Eyes on Israel, Biden Ignores Judicial Crisis in Neighboring Lebanon
If President Joe Biden is worried about the implications of judicial reform in the Jewish state, with its long traditions of civil debate and compromise, he should be much more concerned about Lebanon,...
April 1, 2023
Indonesia scores own goal with hostility to Israel
Attempting to ban Israeli athletes proved to be a costly own goal for Indonesia. On Wednesday, FIFA stripped Indonesia of hosting duties for the under-20 soccer World Cup due to Jakarta’s inability...
March 31, 2023
Composite Violent Extremism: Conceptualizing Attackers Who Increasingly Challenge Traditional Categories of Terrorism
Excerpt Counterterrorism practitioners have increasingly drawn attention to acts of violent extremism which, in the words of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Christopher Wray, “don’t...
March 30, 2023
WAR IN UKRAINE UPDATE: Lawmakers Want Pentagon to Pick Up Pace of Ukraine Aid
A bipartisan group of senators is looking to free up more assistance for Ukraine by pushing the Pentagon to reassess its requirements for a potential war with Russia’s now-degraded military. Four Senate...
March 29, 2023
Canada must put Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on terrorist list under Criminal Code
“Excuses.” That’s how Hamed Esmaeilion, the former spokesperson for the Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims, recently described Ottawa’s rationales for refusing to sanction Iran’s...
March 29, 2023
Xi Jinping Says He Is Preparing China for War
Excerpt Chinese leader Xi Jinping says he is preparing for war. At the annual meeting of China’s parliament and its top political advisory body in March, Xi wove the theme of war readiness through...
March 29, 2023
Is Turkey about to ditch its Russian S-400 missile system?
Turkey’s acquisition of the Russian-manufactured S-400 missile air defense system in 2019 (in place of United States or NATO-manufactured equivalents) resulted, not only in Turkey being...
March 29, 2023
What DeSantis Should Know About the Fight in Ukraine
Florida Governor and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis seems torn on Ukraine. Answering a mid-March questionnaire from Fox’s Tucker Carlson, DeSantis, perhaps seeking to protect his political...
March 29, 2023
Alternatives to ‘peace through strength’
A policy of “peace through strength” means doing what is necessary to instill fear in our enemies, to convince them that we have both the capability and the will to cause them serious harm. If that...
March 27, 2023
Erdogan’s Charm Offensive Will Not Satisfy Egypt, Syria, or Israel
Turkey may have an opportunity to fix its relationship with Egypt, which it broke a decade ago. The outcome will depend entirely on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policy choices, and whether he remains...
March 26, 2023
Iran-backed Militias Target U.S. Troops in Eastern Syria
U.S. officials blame Iran-backed groups for targeting a facility housing U.S. military personnel near Hasakah in northeast Syria on Thursday. The attack killed one American contractor and wounded several...
March 26, 2023
Interview – Where is the next Iranian threat coming from for Israel?
Israel is facing multiple emerging threats, as well as the potential for Iran to shift support from Yemen to other fronts, as it positions itself for its latest challenge to Israel in the region. These...
March 24, 2023
The United States’ Energy Future Needs Critical Minerals—and Latin America
Energy is a weapon in wartime and a key to prosperity in peacetime. As the world moves towards greater adoption of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles, we need to ensure that America’s...
March 23, 2023
The West’s Iran policy risks another Middle East war
“We will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon,” President Joe Biden proclaimed before last fall’s United Nations General Assembly, a stance he has repeated numerous times throughout his...
March 23, 2023
Xi, Putin Visit Light on Support for Russia’s Invasion
Putin Hosts Xi for State Visit Days after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest, Vladimir Putin hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a state visit. The event marked a diplomatic...
March 22, 2023
Beijing’s Subversive Political Warfare in the Pacific—and the Need for Greater Engagement by the United States and Taiwan
Honduras has said it intends to shift diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China. We know this story: with the exception of 2007, when St. Lucia switched from Beijing to Taipei, the trend has run in this...
March 22, 2023
The ‘Yugoslavia Scenario’: How Russia Intends to Use an Anniversary in Its Ongoing Information War
On Tuesday Vladimir Putin warned the U.K. against sending Ukraine depleted uranium shells. Maria Zakharova immediately called this plan the “Yugoslavia scenario,” accusing NATO of using ammunition...
March 22, 2023
Wars of the Jewish state
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – How many simultaneous conflicts can a small country handle? Israel – whose land area is smaller than that of Djibouti, and whose population is smaller than that of Cairo – may soon...
March 21, 2023
Popular Resistance Committees Attempts To Establish a Foothold in the West Bank
On Tue., the Shin Bet said that in recent weeks it arrested four West Bank Palestinians attempting to carry out attacks against Israeli targets. The Shin Bet alleges that the Gaza-based Popular Resistance...
March 21, 2023
How to Keep Antisemitism Away From Turtle Bay
Another antisemite has turned up in the ranks of senior UN officials — this time in the body’s human rights arm, no less. Craig Mokhiber heads the New York section of the Office of the High Commissioner...
March 21, 2023
No limits: What China stands to gain from Russia’s war with the West
Just weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Presidents Putin and Xi signed a joint statement declaring “no limits to Sino-Russian cooperation” and “no forbidden zones.” Beijing has not repudiated...
March 21, 2023
Pray for Peace This Ramadan
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins March 22. It celebrates the month during which Muslims believe Allah revealed the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad. The holiday, marked by fasting and prayer, is intended...
March 20, 2023
Washington ignores Putin’s designs on Moldova at its peril
One of Europe’s most modest countries is becoming a major center of conflict. Russia is targeting the small-but-strategic lands of Moldova as the next big front in its war on Ukraine. While Washington...
March 20, 2023
Blind Sided
In June 2022, Facebook and Twitter accounts suddenly focused their wrath on Australian company Lynas. The previous year, Lynas—the largest rare earths mining and processing company outside China—had...
March 20, 2023
No US-Turkey Rapprochement Is Possible Under Erdogan
Turkey’s Ambassador Murat Mercan recently argued in Defense One that “transitioning transatlantic security priorities to an era of great power competition inevitably will necessitate exploring venues...
March 17, 2023
Could the Saudi-Iranian deal lead to peace with Israel?
A joint trilateral Saudi-Iranian-Chinese statement surprised the world and prompted speculation that Riyadh might be switching sides, abandoning America and joining the anti-Western axis. Dragging its...
March 17, 2023
Vultures at the gate: The national security risk of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure
In 2008, as the U.S. financial sector melted down, Beijing saw opportunity. “The financial crisis was a rare opportunity for Chinese enterprises lacking resources and advanced technology to go...
March 17, 2023
Building Virtue Into Virtual Assets
The illicit use of crypto-currencies—with billions lost, stolen, or exploited by criminals, hackers, rogue states, and bad actors—has cast an understandable cloud over the industry. And both virtual...
March 16, 2023
How Much Can Iranian Artillery Ammo Help Russia?
British outlet Sky News reported last week that Iran had secretly supplied Russia with a considerable amount of ammunition and intends to send more. If true, this would be a boon for Moscow at a time...
March 16, 2023
WAR IN UKRAINE UPDATE: Russians Down U.S. Drone, Iran Sends Putin Ammo
Two Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jets “conducted an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” of an American MQ-9 Reaper drone performing routine...
March 16, 2023
Ukraine’s Cyber Defense Offers Lessons for Taiwan
The Ukraine war has filled the world with graphic images of a surprisingly capable underdog resisting the advances of a lumbering aggressor. But while the pictures are far less compelling, the story...
March 15, 2023
How Iran’s Regime Is Threatened by Its Clerics
Fereydoon Abbasi is a hardline parliamentarian and former head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization. In 2010, he barely survived what looked like an Israeli assassination attempt. And in December 2022,...
March 15, 2023
Hezbollah suspected in cross-border attack inside Israel
On Wednesday, the Israeli military said a suspect who crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon carried out a roadside bomb attack adjacent to the Magiddo Junction in northern Israel. The military’s...
March 15, 2023
The Axis of Tyrannies
On November 1, 1936, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gave a speech celebrating the treaty he had signed with German dictator Adolf Hitler. “This Berlin-Rome protocol is not a barrier, it is rather...
March 14, 2023
Amid Ukraine War, Russia’s Global Hunt for Weapons Turns Up Surprisingly Little
Russia’s attempt to procure suicide drones from Beijing appears to have failed, as the Chinese Foreign Ministry quickly denied any plans to provide lethal aid. By contrast, dozens of countries are...
March 14, 2023
Turkey’s Erdogan grasps desperately for Kurdish votes
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expanded the number of political parties affiliated with his “People’s Alliance” to include a far-right Islamist party: Huda Par, a religiously...
March 13, 2023
Can something be done in wake of the Saudi-Iranian deal?
Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer have recently held very important meetings with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and his team, with the...
March 13, 2023
Who Is Poisoning Iranian Schoolgirls?
Excerpt Iranian news outlets began reporting three months ago that schoolgirls were falling ill with headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue and breathing difficulties. The shrine city of Qom, historic seat...
March 10, 2023
America Is Still Losing the Information War
In late January, the Russian Foreign Ministry launched its latest disinformation campaign, claiming that Moscow had acquired more than 20,000 documents about a supposed secret U.S. biological...
March 10, 2023
Hamas Lauds Terror Attack in Tel Aviv, Hints of Role Behind Shooting
On Thu., Hamas issued a statement praising Mutaz al-Khawaja for carrying out a shooting attack near a Tel-Aviv café that left three people wounded. The terror strike follows an ongoing wave of violence...
March 9, 2023
WAR IN UKRAINE UPDATE: Russia Advances; Moscow Continues to Benefit from Western Technology
Russians Take Eastern Bakhmut, While Zelenskyy Vows to Hold the Rest Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group has captured the eastern part of Bakhmut, Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who heads...
March 9, 2023
Micronesia’s President Writes Bombshell Letter on China’s ‘Political Warfare’
David Panuelo, the president of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) has written a letter to FSM leaders providing extraordinary details on Beijing’s political warfare and grey zone activity in the...
March 8, 2023
Biden’s State Department ignores Iranian death plots inside America
It took quite a bit longer than it should have, but the State Department finally released its 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism. As ever, the document covers the countries that experienced attacks, those...
March 8, 2023
Why Are US Universities Rehabilitating a Convicted Palestinian Terrorist?
College seminars on terrorism do not usually feature an actual terrorist, yet Sami al-Arian spoke at just such a panel at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis last December. The moderator introduced...
March 8, 2023
Blinken Builds a Palestinian Hezbollah in the West Bank
While the Biden administration has been busy encouraging and funding the Israeli protest movement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms,...
March 8, 2023
China’s global supremacists
Code Pink, among the looniest groups on the far left, last week attempted to disrupt a hearing of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Protestors held up signs and wore t-shirts...
March 7, 2023
Iran’s Slow Boil
The clerical regime in Tehran has held the streets. It remains to be seen, however, if the strategies employed to keep the ayatollahs afloat will prevail. When Mahsa Amini, a young Sunni Kurdish-Iranian...
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