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June 4, 2022 North Korean Reds Chairing UN Disarmament Conference While Testing Missiles At a United Nations Security Council meeting last week, the American ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, called North Korea’s six intercontinental ballistic missile launches in 2022 “a threat... June 3, 2022 With US distracted, Tehran and Beijing tighten embrace in the Middle East With attention focused on the ongoing war in Ukraine, some may have missed that Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe visited Tehran recently in an effort to deepen Sino-Iranian security ties. It is the... June 2, 2022 Ukraine War, Day 100: The Unimpressive Performance of Russia’s Military Thus Far February 24, the day Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, is going down as a turning point in modern history. As we hit the war’s 100-day mark on Friday, one of... June 2, 2022 The U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Must Censure Iran Excerpt Iranian officials plotted in the early 2000s to deceive the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and defeat its inquiries into Tehran’s covert nuclear weapons... June 2, 2022 The IAEA’s Iran NPT Safeguards Report – May 2022 Excerpt “Unless and until Iran provides technically credible explanations…the Agency cannot confirm the correctness and completeness of Iran’s declarations under its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement.” -International... June 2, 2022 Book Review: Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Islamist Writings on Resistance and Religion Skare, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for International Studies, Sciences Po, Paris, has assembled and translated twenty documents written by the leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ),... June 2, 2022 Iraq Attacks Israel; What Should Happen Next? On May 26, Iraq approved a poorly thought out authoritarian law; its implications will hurt Iraqis in the diaspora, Iraqis in Iraq, and the Iraqi economy. The law criminalizes non-existent ties with Israel,... June 1, 2022 Hamas as Tehran’s Agent Since the late 1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been plying the Hamas terrorist group with cash and weapons while also teaching it how to be self-sufficient. With hundreds of millions of dollars... June 1, 2022 Enlist Quad, France to take China on in the South Pacific In the recent statement from the Quad meeting in Tokyo, a grouping consisting of Australia, India, Japan, and the US, the Pacific Islands feature prominently. Each of the Quad members have their own unique... May 31, 2022 The War in Ukraine and the Western Balkans Excerpt Russian President Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine is merely a continuation of the war it began 2014. Although he thought he would be able to seize Kyiv in a matter of days and install... May 31, 2022 Lebanon Has an Opposition Movement Again Lebanon has become a failed state and a global source of narcotics, terrorism, and, once again, a growing number of refugees. Washington, stung by its failure to spread democracy in the Middle East and... May 31, 2022 Why Is Israeli-Palestinian Violence Returning to Jenin? The tragic death in Jenin of Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Aqleh has made that city synonymous once again with Israeli-Palestinian violence. Little known outside the northern West Bank city of... May 31, 2022 Don’t Let Iran Humiliate the IAEA Again The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Board of Governors will meet next week in Vienna to consider a new assessment from the U.N. agency’s chief nuclear watchdog that suggests Iran is concealing... May 30, 2022 Combat white supremacist violence using sanctions The tragic shooting in a Buffalo supermarket has once more brought white supremacist violence to the forefront of national news. Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old self-avowed white supremacist, killed 10 people... May 30, 2022 This Memorial Day, remember those killed in this century’s wars Memorial Day is an opportunity to honor the memory of all of America’s fallen heroes and communicate to all veterans and those serving today that their fellow citizens value their sacrifices to preserve... May 30, 2022 Paper Trail of Terror In autumn of 2017, my colleague Thomas Joscelyn was invited to visit the Central Intelligence Agency. It was a long time coming. He and our colleague Bill Roggio at FDD’s Long War Journal had for... May 28, 2022 Ukraine: Peace Through Victory With $50 billion in American military and humanitarian aid now in the pipeline for Ukraine, some worry that the power equation in the war will drastically change this summer. Henry Kissinger tells Davos... May 28, 2022 China launches empire building exercise in Pacific theatre Time to head to the map room. We’ll open the long, wide, top drawer, pull out the map of World War II’s Pacific Theatre, and set it aside on the chart table for now. We’ll get back to it. But first... May 27, 2022 Jordan Has an Iran Problem. Can Israel and Saudi Arabia Unite to Combat It? In a conversation last week with former U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Jordan’s King Abdullah II expressed concerns that Iranian forces in Syria could soon destabilize his country. Russia... May 25, 2022 Turkey’s wooing of Israel may lead to Hamas ouster Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, visited Israel this week, a sign that Israel and Turkey may be on a path to reconciliation, after a decade of antagonism. However, Jerusalem has made it clear... May 25, 2022 The Name of the Lebanese Play? The Aristocrats! One of the most characteristic beliefs of Washington elites these days is that the true “meaning” of any particular event is always derived from large-scale “narratives” about headline topics like... May 25, 2022 NATO’s problem child Turkey is a long way from the North Atlantic, yet it is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It joined in 1952, just three years after NATO’s founding. Greece was admitted at the same time.... May 24, 2022 White Supremacists Sacralize Mass Attackers to Encourage More Violence Payton Gendron’s gruesome May 14 shooting at a Tops supermarket, in which he claimed ten lives in an attack targeting the black community of Buffalo, New York, is the latest in a string of mass shootings... May 23, 2022 Guam Needs Better Missile Defenses—Urgently The Defense Department of Defense has dithered as China builds ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles to attack Guam, America’s most important military base in the western Pacific. The good news... May 23, 2022 Protests in Iran Are Surging. The Biden Administration Can Help. Chants of “Death to the dictator!” are once again crescendoing in street protests across Iran. Early this May, the ultra-hardline government of President Ebrahim Raisi cut subsidies for flour and... May 22, 2022 A new approach to defending Taiwan at the UN Excerpt Bowing to Chinese pressure for the fifth year in a row, the World Health Organization (WHO) is set to arbitrarily deny Taiwan’s request to attend the global health body’s annual agenda-setting... May 21, 2022 Militia Violent Extremists in the United States: Understanding the Evolution of the Threat Introduction In the United States, militia violent extremists (MVEs) embrace violence in service of antigovernment and anti-authority ideology. MVEs are just one part of the militia movement: movement adherents... May 21, 2022 End the WHO’s Unhealthy Obsession With Israel The World Health Organization’s (WHO) annual World Health Assembly (WHA) will kick off later this month in Geneva. The WHA will put Israel under the microscope—just like it did last year and the year... May 21, 2022 Is Chinese pressure making Solomon Islands stall Indian envoy’s visit? Alexandria, VA: India makes China nervous in ways none of the other Quad countries do. So it’s not surprising that, according to sources, the Solomon Islands government is stalling the entry of the Indian... May 20, 2022 Biden must force feckless WHO to hold Russia accountable for devastating Ukraine’s health facilities Russia has attacked hundreds of Ukrainian health care facilities since it invaded unprovoked in February, yet it remains a World Health Organization executive-board member with full voting rights. Indeed,... May 20, 2022 Russia’s Withdrawal From Syria Is an Opportunity for Israel Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz revealed details about the largest Israel Defense Force (IDF) drill in recent years last week. The drill included simulated airstrikes on Iran and a simulated multi-front... May 20, 2022 So Much for Reforming the World Health Organization President Joe Biden, in one of his first acts in office, reversed his predecessor’s decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO). The Biden administration emphasized that it would... May 20, 2022 It’s Time to Stop Giving Crypto Companies a Pass In response to growing concerns, including from U.S. sanctions officials that Vladimir Putin and his oligarch allies might look to cryptocurrency to conceal their financial movements, two bills—one in... May 18, 2022 The Strongman Cometh Despite the fulminations of the Kremlin’s television propagandists and Russian bureaucrats seeking to anticipate the dictator’s views, it appears that Vladimir Putin has “no problem” with Finland... May 18, 2022 Putin supports NATO Credit where credit is due: Vladimir Putin is revitalizing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance that has never been obsolete but had become obsolescent. Of course, boosting NATO was not the... May 17, 2022 Murder on the Beach Paraguay’s criminal prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was a quiet man with a humble demeanor. He spoke sparingly and did not seek the limelight. He was also courageous. As a high-profile member of the Office... May 17, 2022 Iran Is in Position for a Surprise Nuclear Breakout “Our nuclear program is advancing as planned and time is on our side,” an unnamed Iranian official bluntly told Reuters on May 5. “Oil sales have doubled,” noted Iranian President Ebrahim... May 16, 2022 Recommendations For Yoon-Biden Summit – Must Build On The Strong Alliance Foundation South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol began his five-year term on May 10 with a midnight security briefing from the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff. This meeting, which precedes a May 21 summit between Yoon... May 14, 2022 How A Revised Nuclear Deal Would Affect Iran’s Non-Oil Exports Tehran has announced that in the first month of the Persian year 1401 (April 2022), Iran’s non-oil exports grew 25 percent compared to the same month last year. This growth follows a 40 percent increase... May 14, 2022 Biden administration can’t overlook the Balkans when sanctioning Russia Excerpt As Western economic sanctions tank Russia’s economy, the Kremlin and its supporters are scouring the globe for jurisdictions to use to evade sanctions. Moscow appears to have set its sights... May 13, 2022 Bill Gates’s Pandemic Prevention Plan Has a China-Sized Blind Spot In his now famous March 2015 TED talk, which has more than 40 million views online, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates pleaded with the world to start preparing for the next infectious disease outbreak... May 13, 2022 Ahead of Biden’s expected visit to Israel US President Biden recently announced a planned visit to Jerusalem, probably at the end of June. The important visit is planned for many US internal reasons, but regardless of Biden’s interests, which... May 12, 2022 Iran’s Hard-Liners Believe They’re Winning on Nuclear Weapons Excerpt The European Union’s envoy charged with reviving Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic, Enrique Mora, was in Tehran Wednesday in another—some call it last-ditch—effort to... May 12, 2022 Lebanon’s ‘useless’ election will be neither free nor fair It’s election season in Lebanon. Millions will head to the ballot box on May 15 to choose their parliamentarians, who will in turn elect a new president before October. International voting monitors are... May 11, 2022 Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S. national interest Dear Mr. Vance, Or may I call you J.D.? (You can call me Cliff! Or C.D.!) Congratulations on winning the Ohio Senate GOP primary! What an amazing American journey you’re having! Count me among the millions... May 10, 2022 It’s time for a new U.S.-Korea alliance for a free, unified peninsula A small group of civil society stakeholders from the Republic of Korea (South Korea), North Korea, the United States, Japan and China recently convened in the mountains of Virginia to address the security... May 10, 2022 A New President Faces Familiar Challenges in Seoul South Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, was inaugurated today and has as his main goal remaking Seoul into a global player consistent with its position as a top 10 world economy. But issues closer... May 9, 2022 Don’t Cling to Hopes That Putin Will Ever Face Justice The White House has made an ironclad commitment to holding Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for the atrocities his forces have committed in Ukraine. But don’t hold your breath waiting for... May 9, 2022 New Mideast task force can counter Iranian arms smuggling, but more capabilities are needed Eyeing the continued flow of Iranian weapons to the Houthis in Yemen, the Combined Maritime Forces, a naval partnership comprising 34 nations led by U.S. Central Command, established a new multinational... May 9, 2022 It’s Time to Secure the Water Sector from Cyber Threats The Biden administration is reportedly considering a first-ever integrated action plan for global water security, linking global access to clean, reliable water to U.S. national security for the first...

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