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February 10, 2023 Captagon: Assad’s Deadly Drug Of Choice Expands To Israel Israel’s Ministry of Defense thwarted an attempt to smuggle thousands of captagon tablets into the Gaza Strip last week. The news was overshadowed by soaring tensions, amidst continued unrest in the... February 9, 2023 North Korea’s Political Warfare Strategy Has Failed: ROK – U.S. Alliance Needs A Superior Strategy Approximately halfway into his first term, President Joe Biden has been given a wake-up call from Kim Jong Un that North Korea continues to remain a primary national security threat. Some policymakers,... February 8, 2023 Turkey’s Earthquake: The Buck Stops with Erdogan Turkey may have just experienced the most devastating natural disaster in its history. Ten provinces in the country’s southeast were flattened by powerful earthquakes in a matter of hours, resulting... February 8, 2023 The Arsenal of Tyranny More than 3,000 assault rifles, 578,000 rounds of ammunition, and 23 anti-tank guided missiles. A shipment from Americans to Ukrainians defending themselves from Russian invaders? No, a shipment from the... February 8, 2023 Hezekiah’s Mistake Israeli leaders, beginning with David Ben-Gurion, are famous for reading the Bible as the history of their people, and in particular as a record of the last Jewish experiment in nationhood. Given that... February 7, 2023 How to help Kyiv go on a drone offensive Russia and Iran are planning to build a factory within Russia to produce thousands of Shahed-136 drones, which Moscow will use to continue its campaign to destroy Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.... February 5, 2023 Clipping the wings of Iran and its militias The recent drone attack on an Iranian military compound in Isfahan was not the first of its kind and is unlikely to be the last. It was one of many that have hit Iranian arms depots and convoys across the... February 5, 2023 The U.S. is blocked from ports in PRC-Influenced Solomons, Vanuatu The United States just reopened its embassy in Solomon Islands, the country that last year signed a security deal with China. Problem solved, right? If only. Two other things just happened that give a sense... February 3, 2023 Russia’s Disastrous War Has Created an Opening in the Balkans Excerpt Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic—whose country is one of Russia’s closest allies in Europe—recently made a surprisingly strong statement in support of Ukraine. “We said from the beginning... February 2, 2023 Emerging ‘Offset-X’ Strategy Addresses Chinese Threat The People’s Republic of China has emerged as the United States’ top strategic competitor, and the pacing challenge for the U.S. military. In the words of the recently published 2022 National Defense... February 1, 2023 A classified swamp When Donald Trump won the presidency, an editor at a major liberal publication asked me if I would write a piece on why Trump should be denied access to the nation’s secrets . While I could sympathize... February 1, 2023 Soldiers of Misfortune The Wagner Group is not, as the name might suggest, a club for lovers of epic German operas. Its members are often called mercenaries but that’s imprecise because these soldiers of misfortune are not... January 31, 2023 Preparing for strategic competition: The need for irregular warfare professional military education Excerpt The Department of Defense (DOD) does not provide the irregular warfare (IW) professional military education necessary for success in competition and conflict in the 21st century. This is a not... January 31, 2023 America should reach out to children of Russia’s elites Excerpt As the Russian military expands — to 1.5 million troops, according to the Russian defense ministry, or even 2 million, according to Ukrainian intelligence officials — you can be sure one... January 30, 2023 Kabul Attack Network commander brags about suicide assaults in TV interview A co-leader of what the U.S. military called the Kabul Attack Network appeared on Afghan television and bragged about his role in killing thousands of Afghans and hundreds of U.S. and Coalition personnel... January 30, 2023 Pakistani Taliban kills scores in mosque bombing in Peshawar A Taliban suicide bomber killed scores of civilians and policemen in an attack in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday. The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan (TTP) denied any role in the attack,... January 28, 2023 If China Cracked U.S. Encryption, Why Would It Tell Us? When Alan Turing cracked the Enigma code during the Second World War, neither the United Kingdom nor the United States immediately published a paper announcing the achievement. Instead, they kept it to... January 28, 2023 Only America Can Resolve the Cyprus Question In 2013, a political counselor at the Turkish embassy in Washington asked me out to lunch to discuss my plans and vision for the Institute of Turkish Studies, which I was then executive director of. After... January 28, 2023 Time For Palestinian Leaders to End “Pay-to-Slay” Terror Bounties Earlier this month, Israel’s new finance minister Bezalel Smotrich withheld just under $40 million of tax revenue that Israel collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Smotrich told reporters... January 27, 2023 Putin is fighting another secret war – one dangerously ignored by the West While the world is focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s propaganda operations are still global in nature. From South America to Africa, Russian agitators are working to... January 27, 2023 Analysis: U.S. Military kills key Islamic State leader in Africa The United States announced yesterday that it conducted a special operations forces (SOF) raid on a hideout of the Islamic State’s branch in Somalia. During the raid, the SOF troops killed Bilal al-Sudani,... January 27, 2023 Coming Out as an Arab Advocate of Peace with Israel Excerpt As a student in Lebanon in the 1990s, I believed that the Jewish state sought to occupy Arab lands “from the Euphrates to the Nile,” and I was hardly alone. My view of Israel began to change,... January 25, 2023 How human rights activists chased off Venezuela’s strongman The strongman leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, was due to attend a heads of state summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in Buenos Aires on Monday. Maduro planned to hold important... January 25, 2023 Shin Bet: Hamas Attempting to Recruit Palestinians in the West Bank On Wednesday, Israel’s security agency (Shin Bet) alleged that Hamas in the Gaza Strip was attempting to recruit Palestinians in the West Bank that would act as facilitators to attacks against Israelis.... January 25, 2023 Reading Putin’s mind I’ve begun talking to myself. Not good. But who else can I talk to? I’m surrounded by fools and incompetents. Yes, there are those who defend me and the special military operation I initiated a year... January 24, 2023 Woke ‘ESG’ investors guilty of anti-Semitism as they target Israel Israel boycotters have a new home for waging economic war against the world’s only Jewish state: environmental, social and governance ratings. Federal and state officials should respond by demanding... January 24, 2023 U.S. military strikes Shabaab in central Somalia The U.S. military targeted Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, in a pair of strikes in central Somalia over the past several days. The first attack took place on Jan. 20 near the town of Galcad... January 23, 2023 National Strategy for Countering North Korea Excerpt Since the emergence of the nuclear threat from North Korea in the early 1990s, the primary objective of U.S. policy has been to convince Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program. While... January 23, 2023 Northern Mali clans swear allegiance to JNIM Over the weekend, the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM), al Qaeda’s branch in the Sahel and much of West Africa, published photos showing several notables from various local clans in northern... January 20, 2023 Sanctions Have Hurt Iran’s Aviation Sector, But Not Enough Excerpt The Islamic Republic of Iran’s civil aviation sector has played a vital role in the regime’s support of terror, repressive dictators, and military aggression around the world. It provides logistical... January 20, 2023 Ekrem Imamoglu Is the Best Chance for Turkish Democracy Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has hinted at holding what the Washington Post has described as the “world’s most important election in 2023,” on May 14. This would put the date of the... January 20, 2023 Washington must label Russian private army Wagner Group as the terrorist group it is Recent media reports show that the Biden administration is considering designating the infamous Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, as a terrorist entity. While such a move may seem counterintuitive... January 20, 2023 Stocking Ukraine could generate foreign military sales boom Replacing the military equipment transferred to Ukraine by the United States’ NATO allies could lead to roughly $21.7 billion in foreign military sales or direct commercial sales for American industry,... January 19, 2023 Iran, Iran and Iran: Only one topic should dominate talks with Sullivan and Blinken President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s visit to Israel this week will include a meeting with his counterpart, the head of the National Security Council Tzachi Hanegbi,... January 18, 2023 A Prosecutor Was Murdered for Investigating Iran and Argentinian Corruption Argentina has “serious corruption problems,” according to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. Will this regrettable condition continue to conceal the truth behind the identity... January 17, 2023 World leaders should press Switzerland on arms deliveries to Ukraine As government officials and business leaders from around the world flock to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting this week, Ukrainian soldiers continue to fight and die to protect... January 17, 2023 The Three Amigos Summit In Mexico City last week, the president of the United States met with the president of Mexico and the prime minister of Canada for what was dubbed the “Three Amigos Summit.” The notion that Joe Biden,... January 15, 2023 Germany’s Bet on China Is a Crisis in the Making BASF, the German chemical products behemoth, made a bet on Russia in recent decades. After Russia invaded Ukraine, that bet failed to pay off. Now it’s making another risky bet on China, just as great... January 13, 2023 At the United Nations, Israel is ‘the Jew Among the Nations’ China presented itself as a champion of Muslim rights last Tuesday, when it asked the United Nations Security Council to hold a special session to address an Israeli minister’s visit to the Temple Mount,... January 13, 2023 Let Ukraine Defeat the Russia-Iranian War Machine Air raid sirens rang in the new year for Kyiv last week as Ukraine faced another crushing barrage of Russian missiles and Iranian drones. Rather than helping Ukraine defend itself for “as long... January 12, 2023 State places $10 million bounty on Kenyan Shabaab commander Just a few days after placing a similar bounty on Maalim Ayman, the head of Shabaab’s Kenyan military wing, the U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program is now also offering $10 million for... January 12, 2023 Moscow Shakes Up Command of Its Forces in Ukraine (Again) Moscow announced yesterday that the chief of the Russian military’s General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, had been appointed commander of Russian forces in Ukraine. Gerasimov’s appointment reasserts... January 12, 2023 Security Challenges Facing the New Israeli Government The State of Israel is not required by law to adopt a national security strategy. But the need for such a document has been often raised, and several efforts have been made to write one. In October 1953,... January 11, 2023 Erdogan’s Coming U-Turn on Syria Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdoğan has been committed to toppling the regime of Bashar al-Assad for more than a decade. Turkey devoted a vast amount of diplomatic, military and economic... January 11, 2023 Walk like an Israeli Imagine if Pope Francis said: “Only Christians are permitted in the Vatican! No Muslims and no Jews!” The “international community” would be outraged. But the pontiff would never say that. Muslims... January 9, 2023 ‘Enough Is Enough’: What Blinken Should Tell Turkey’s Cavusoglu Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is expected to visit Washington in mid-January, in what is expected to be major push by Ankara to realize much-desired policy goals. Expectations should be lowered... January 9, 2023 Add Israel to the Combined Maritime Forces and its Red Sea task force Egypt took command of the multinational Combined Task Force 153 on Dec. 12 during a ceremony in Bahrain. The task force, which was established in April 2022, focuses on maritime security in the Red Sea,... January 9, 2023 Obama’s Anti-Imperialist Fantasy Bears Bitter Fruit The eventual fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran will reveal the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement to have been one of the worst unforced strategic errors in the history of U.S. foreign policy. At home, the... January 8, 2023 The State of US’ India policy The United States sends mixed messages to India.On the one hand, Washington highlighted the importance of India’s rise and leadership in its Indo-Pacific Strategy, designated India a Major Defense Partner,... January 7, 2023 ‘Adopt’ an Iranian Political Prisoner to Save a Life Three months into the latest round of protests in Iran, at least 100 protesters are at risk of execution. The Islamic Republic of Iran has already executed four protesters and arrested more than 18,000...

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