Attack on Pearl Harbor

February 26, 2022 | James Brooke |

With Russian invasion of Ukraine, a page just turned in Europe’s history book

In the future, we will remember Feb. 24 alongside 9/11 and Dec. 7. Although Russia’s invasion is not a bolt from the blue like Pearl Harbor or the attack on the World Trade Center, many people did not...

October 28, 2021 | LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster |

Preserving the Warrior Ethos

It is corroded, and the necessary restorative work belongs to us all

September 8, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Twenty 9/11 anniversaries

The sleeping giant nods off again

February 18, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, Maj. Jared Thompson

We Must Work to Prevent a ‘Space Pearl Harbor’

Protecting America's comparative military advantage above the atmosphere.

December 15, 2020 | Mark Dubowitz, Jonathan Schanzer

Retain American Power, Do Not Restrain It

The call for the United States to show “restraint” by withdrawing from foreign entanglements and keeping the focus at home is growing in foreign-policy circles – and not just in the Trump administration....

December 15, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Leon Panetta

Defending Forward

Securing America by Projecting Military Power Abroad

August 18, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz

The Dangerous Illusion of Restraining U.S. Power

Isolationists among both Democrats and Republicans want to withdraw from foreign entanglements. That would make the world much less safe.

May 28, 2020 | Andrea Stricker, Maj. Liane “Trixie” Zivitski

COVID-19 and the U.S. Air Force

COVID-19 is testing every aspect of U.S. national defense readiness and mission execution. The Air Force is preparing for what the chief of staff, General David Goldfein, termed a “reset,” requiring...

April 13, 2020 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Islamic Revolution vs. Donald Trump

Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei are more influential today than at any time since 1979.

September 11, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Another unhappy 9/11 anniversary

We continue to fight erratically and without a coherent global strategy.

September 5, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

The ‘Long War’ is not getting shorter

Seventeen years ago next week, out of a clear blue sky, Americans were massacred on a scale unprecedented since Pearl Harbor. The Japanese attack of 1941 led to an intense but relatively brief war....

February 23, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austrian parliament nixes event honoring pro-Hamas, anti- Israel Jew who fled Nazis

The spokeswoman for the president of the Austrian parliament informed The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that an event slated to honor Hedy Epstein - an anti-Zionist Jew and defender of Hamas - has bee...

February 23, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Austria’s parliament set to honor pro-Hamas, pro-BDS Jew who fled Nazis

An Austrian Parliament event partially devoted to women survivors of the Holocaust is reaping a whirlwind of criticism because it honors a German-born American Jewish woman who opposes Israel&rsq...

November 25, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Memo to Presidential Campaign Advisers

This memorandum is addressed to the brave souls advising presidential candidates. As you know, the recent terrorist attacks in France – and in Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Lebanon, Turke...

August 19, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Restoring Peace Through Strength

Here’s a question I might suggest be asked of our presidential hopefuls: In a time of war, would unilateral disarmament be a good idea? Here’s how I might suggest they reply:...

July 22, 2015 |

Heading Toward An EMP Catastrophe

For over a decade now, since the Congressional EMP Commission delivered its first report to Congress eleven years ago in July of 2004, various Senate and House committees have heard from numerous scie...

January 30, 2014 | |

Pivoting Right Past North Korea

President Obama in his State of the Union address on Tuesday gave scant time to foreign policy, and just one long sentence to the Asia-Pac...

August 15, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Major Hasan’s ‘Martyrdom’

At Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009, 13 American military men and women were killed and more than 30 wounded by a man who proudly regarded himself as a “...

July 29, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

Whither Egypt? Whence Syria? (Wrong Questions)

July 25th was the 70th anniversary of the fall of Mussolini, voted out of office by the Grand Fascist Council, arrested by order of the king, and imprisoned.  At first, Italy remained in the...

January 27, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal

A Diary for the Future

Writer Johannes Gross neatly captured Germany’s relationship to its Nazi history when he wrote, “The resistance to Hitler and his kind is getting stronger the more the Third Reich rec...