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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 Consider Designating Russia as a Jurisdiction of Primary Money Laundering Concern Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) last week called on the Treasury Department to designate a Russian bank and two related entities as institutions of “primary money laundering concern” (PMLC) under Section... 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 17, 2022 Russian Disinformation and Propaganda in Relation to the War Against Ukraine May 16, 2022 President Biden’s Missed Opportunities at U.S.-ASEAN Summit President Joe Biden hosted an in-person summit last week with leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a bloc of 10 countries with a total annual GDP of approximately $3 trillion.... 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 Biden Should Press WHO to Suspend Russia The member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region overwhelmingly passed a resolution on May 10 condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with 43 votes in favor and only Russia, Belarus,... May 12, 2022 The White House Is Bending the Law on Syria Sanctions 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 IRGC-Controlled Iranian Airline Makes Unexplained Flights to Russia Amidst Invasion of Ukraine The U.S.-sanctioned Iranian airline Qeshm Fars Air has flown to Moscow at least seven times since mid-April after having made that trip only twice last year, according to the flight tracking service FlightRadar24.... 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... May 9, 2022 File Number S7-09-22 – Comments on Proposed Rules May 9, 2022 Qatar Is Hamas’ Patron. Its ‘Moderate’ Rebranding Is a Dangerous Delusion There’s been an upswing recently of commentary celebrating what is often termed a welcome “shift” in the policies and behavior of Qatar: away from promoting and subsidizing radical Islamist... May 7, 2022 Russia’s Potemkin army to parade on Red Square During my eight years in Moscow, the annual May 9 Victory over Nazism Parade was a huge, nationally televised extravaganza. Journalists parsed President Vladimir Putin’s speech. Military attaches from... May 5, 2022 Can the Intelligence Community Tell What’s Brewing in Afghanistan? Excerpt Whenever the United States gets traumatized by the unexpected abroad, discussions inevitably start about the inadequacy of American intelligence collection and analysis. There is truth behind this... May 4, 2022 Andy Levin’s ‘Two-State Bill’ Won’t Support Middle East Peace Late last autumn and to great fanfare, Representative Andy Levin (D-MI-9) proposed the Two-State Solution Act, which would make it U.S. policy to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian... May 4, 2022 Deal or no deal For months, the smart money has been betting that a nuclear deal between President Biden and Iran’s rulers was a sure thing. Mr. Biden had promised that any new agreement that would be “longer and stronger”... May 3, 2022 State Department Report Glosses Over Assad’s Narco-Trafficking Wealth In a congressionally mandated report issued last week, the State Department made a single passing reference to drug trafficking as a source of wealth for the family of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. The... May 3, 2022 Team Biden must stop Russia’s Iran deal The Biden administration — which repeatedly asserts that it has adopted tough policies on Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine — plans to allow Moscow to receive a major economic windfall under a... May 2, 2022 Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: May May 1, 2022 Foil the Financiers of Iran’s Terrorism Excerpt Signals out of the White House suggest President Biden won’t give in to Iran’s demand that the U.S. remove Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the State Department list of... April 30, 2022 Taiwan needs joint exercises, missiles, right now The question is, will China/Taiwan follow Russia/Ukraine? In this edition of “Indo-Pacific: Behind the Headlines” we ask RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery what lessons we’ve learned already that could shape... April 29, 2022 Iran Increases Funding for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Iran significantly increased its funding in 2021 for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the regime’s primary tool for exporting Islamist extremism and supporting terrorist groups, according... April 29, 2022 China’s Agreement with Solomon Islands & Implications for Security in the Pacific Could you provide a brief overview of the domestic political situation in Solomon Islands? To understand the situation, we need to look at three distinct strands: domestic Solomon Islands, China, and Australia.... April 28, 2022 Russia’s Sarmat test underscores need to modernize US nuclear triad Russia conducted its first flight test of the RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile on April 20. The launch represents a notable milestone in Russia’s ongoing nuclear modernization designed... April 27, 2022 Biden’s overdue National Security Strategy Dear President Biden, I hope this note finds you well. You’re a busy guy, so I’ll get straight to the point. You’ve now been in office for over year, and you still don’t have a National Security...

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