A false claim, now common in Western media and academia, portrays Hezbollah as having emerged in response to Israel’s 1982 invasion and subsequent occupation of Lebanon. In reality, Hezbollah arose in...
In the middle of its spring budgeting season, it’s guns, not butter, for Beijing. Ahead of its annual “Two Sessions” legislative gatherings on March 5, China unveiled its latest series of planned...
Beijing’s export machine keeps running as Brussels hesitates, leaving European industry exposed
China’s top artificial intelligence (AI) models don’t simply follow the Communist Party line — they act on it. On November 20, the cybersecurity firm CloudStrike published a study suggesting that...
Mamdani’s up and the centrists are down
Working to reestablish the caliphate for almost a century
We’re in an arms race and there can be only one winner
Careful, Sir, Putin wants to out-negotiate you like Stalin out-negotiated Roosevelt
REVIEW: ‘The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature’ by Charlie English
Lebanon’s political machine is moving again. In May, the Lebanese concluded country-wide municipal and mayoral elections—their first in nine years—on the heels of Joseph Aoun filling...
Almost exactly 50 years after the evacuation of Saigon, American air power has returned to Vietnam. On April 22, 19FortyFive, a defense news outlet, reported that Vietnam had reached an agreement with...
President Trump is launching a tariff blitz on the world for one reason: China. China’s economy is built on a system that distorts free trade. Determined to grow at any cost, China has...
Cast your mind back to September 6, 2019, when presidential candidate Joe Biden, campaigning in New Hampshire, took the hand of a 24-year-old activist. “Kiddo,” he said, “look in my eyes. I...
Evaluating The Last Four Years in the EAP Region and Unseized Opportunities Under President Trump
The world’s authoritarians are delighting in the opportunity to wield the language of human rights in the faces of gullible Westerners.
Russo-Iranian Cooperation and Threats to U.S. Interests
Abandoning Ukraine is no way to make America great again
Peace requires deterrence which requires military might
The U.S. retreats while China’s Communist rulers advance
Against the backdrop of deepening strategic com-petition with Beijing, Washington’s attention is steadily turning to the need for a comprehensive strategy by which to engage South Asia. Less well...