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December 16, 2021 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Washington shouldn’t pat itself on the back for its cybersecurity spending just yet

Excerpt October was “cybersecurity awareness month,” but November and December are shaping up to be cybersecurity spending season on Capitol Hill. Last month, the House approved the Build Back Better...

December 1, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

Why The Iran Nuclear Talks Were Over Before They Began

Indirect talks between the United States and Iran resumed this week in Vienna with world powers eager to find out if the Islamic Republic would agree to curtail its nuclear program. The truth: the...

November 23, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

How America Lost Its Leverage on Iran

Ten years ago, two senators, one Republican and one Democrat, joined together to force America to sanction Iran. In the years since, the leverage they built has dissipated. Why?

October 14, 2021 | Richard Goldberg, Jacob Nagel

It’s Decision Time on Iran

The Islamic Republic is advancing both the enrichment and weaponization tracks needed to build a bomb.

September 27, 2021 | Thomas Spoehr, Bradley Bowman, Bryan Clark, Mackenzie Eaglen

What To Expect When You’re Expecting A National Defense Strategy

Excerpt In July, Rear Adm. Mike Studeman, director of intelligence for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, warned that “it’s only a matter of time” until China resorts to military force and suggested that...

September 8, 2021 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Matthew Zweig, Richard Goldberg

Biden Is Running a Hostage Negotiation With the Taliban

Making concessions now will only encourage terrorism.

August 23, 2021 | Matt Pottinger |

Beijing’s American Hustle

How Chinese Grand Strategy Exploits U.S. Power

August 20, 2021 | Bradley Bowman |

Biden’s catastrophe

Responding to the disastrous fallout of his Afghanistan withdrawal, President Joe Biden declared that the “buck stops with me” — and then spent the rest of his first public address on the crisis...

August 6, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

From Maximum Pressure to Maximum Deference

Biden’s appeasement of Iran has let the regime become more brazen.

August 3, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

It’s Time for Biden to Leave a Bad Deal in the Past

A change in Iranian presidents doesn’t change the badness of the Iran deal.

July 6, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

Violence in Yemen, Gaza, and Iraq Isn’t Coincidental, Even Though the White House Wishes it Was

Recent flareups of violence in the Middle East are the outcome of a major policy shift by an administration that prefers to avert its eyes from the truth.

June 29, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden Needs an International Organizations Strategy

A U.S. State Department czar should lead a campaign to stop China and Russia from gaining control of multilateral agencies.

June 28, 2021 | Bradley Bowman, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Getting Out of Iran’s Way

The election of Ebrahim Raisi shows Iran's lack of interest in peace with the West—and the perils of pulling out of the Middle East altogether.

June 14, 2021 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Samuel Hodgson

Skinheads, Saints, and (National) Socialists

An Overview of the Transnational White Supremacist Extremist Movement

June 11, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

How States Can Respond If Biden Lifts Iran Sanctions

Republican governors and legislatures have some effective tools at their disposal.

May 14, 2021 | Matthew Zweig, Richard Goldberg

Rescinding the IRGC’s Terror Designation Would Harm American Victims of Terrorism

As part of negotiations in Vienna, Iran’s clerical regime has reportedly requested that the Biden administration rescind the U.S. government’s formal designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

May 10, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

How Governors and State Legislatures Can Mitigate the White House’s Iran Strategy

A few months ago it seemed that the Biden administration would pursue a more moderate version of Obama’s Iran strategy. Now it’s poised to make even greater concessions.

April 21, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Choosing defeat in Afghanistan

America’s many enemies will be encouraged and emboldened

March 4, 2021 | David Adesnik |

What Red Line Tells Us About Syria’s Chemical Weapons

Book review: Joby Warrick’s book brings to life the history and reaction to Syria’s chemical weapons program and the difficulty in eliminating it.

March 3, 2021 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden Risks Repeating Mistakes of the Past if He Ignores the Evidence on Iran

The Islamic Republic has a long track record of willfully concealing its nuclear activities in violation of its treaty obligations.