Confronting Genocide In Our Time
In my last column, I wrote about my gra...
Bill Clinton
Done Deal?
All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...
Op-eds
A spy’s story
After a long and extraordinary career, Gen. Michael Hayden has written “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.” Both a memoir and a primer on modern espionag...
Op-eds
Who killed more terrorists, Obama or Bush? It depends
Some critics of President Barack Obama take issue with what they see as a cold-hearted attitude toward the threat of terrorism. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace brought up this criticism in an...
Op-eds
Underestimating Nuclear Missile Threats from North Korea and Iran
Co-written by William R. Graham, Henry F. Cooper, Fritz Ermarth and Peter Vincent Pry North Korea launched its second satellite on Saturday, yet the national press continues to...
Op-eds
North Korea’s Nuclear Advance — With Or Without The Hydrogen Bomb
It’s almost two years since North Korea’s government threatened to carry out “a new form of nuclear test.” Asked at a United Nations press conference what Pyongyang had in...
Op-eds
Iran Deal’s Premise Is Wrong — They Likely Have a Bomb
Co-written by William R. Graham, Henry Cooper, Fritz Ermarth, Peter Vincent Pry President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is not just a bad deal. It is the wor...
Op-eds
The Deadly Peril in Appeasement
“Appeasement” gets a bad rap but, strictly speaking, the word implies nothing more than an attempt to make peace. If aggrieved adversaries can be pacified by reasonable concessions, w...
Op-eds
Trading Peace in Egypt and Israel
This year marks the tenth anniversary of an Egyptian-Israeli economic partnership that has quietly pumped billions into Cairo’s vulnerable economy. The free-trade framework known as Qualify...
Op-eds
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:...
Op-eds
How to Get a Better Deal With Iran
The Iran nuclear deal is a ticking time bomb. Its key provisions sunset too quickly, and it grants Iran too much leverage to engage in nuclear blackmail. To defuse it, Congress needs to do what i...
Op-eds
Slam Dunk II: The Persian Version
“With this deal, we cut off ...
Op-eds
The China-Iran Nuclear Pipeline
President Barack Obama has said that the final nuclear deal with Iran will...
Op-eds
Next Up: Nuclear Talks With North Korea?
Beyond the sound and fury of the Iran nuclear talks lies a big follow-up question: What, if anything, does President Obama propose to do during his final stretch in office about the growing nucle...
Op-eds
North Korea’s Takeaway From The Iran Nuclear Talks
In defense of the Iran nuclear talks, Obama administration officials have made a number of unlikely claims, including the repeated proposition that under the current Tehran regime Iran’s nu...
Op-eds
Veteran National Security Expert John Hannah Joins FDD as Senior Counselor
WASHINGTON - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies announced that John Hannah, former non-resident senior fellow with FDD and national security advisor to the Vice President, joined the organ...
Press Releases
The Win-Win delusion
“The West Capitulates.” That was the headline on an article by Ibrahim al-Amin, editor of the Lebanese daily al-Akbar. He elaborated: “Victors and vanquished. This is the...
Op-eds
CIA Bides its Time
The CIA’s Directorate of Operations doesn’t have an acute memory. But it does have durable institutional sentiments. So here’s a guess: In a few years, few operatives in the cla...
Op-eds
Khamenei Spits in Our Face Again—and We Pay for the Pleasure
He did it again, as we should have expected. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei walked us right up to the finish line, spat on us, and walked away. Months and months of secret an...
Op-eds
Betting on Iran
Negotiations with Iran are set to conclude on Nov. 24th. What are the odds they will end with Iran’s rulers agreeing to verifiably dismantle their illicit nuclear weapons program...