U.S. Weighs Funding Multinational Peacekeeping Force in Gaza
The Biden administration is deliberating options for post-war Gaza, including possibly funding a peacekeeping force in the enclave, senior U.S. officials told Politico in a March...
David Kilcullen
Death of UNIFIL Soldier Reflects Hezbollah’s Continuing Impunity in Lebanon
Latest Developments An angry mob near the Lebanese village of Al-Aqbieh shot and killed an Irish soldier serving in the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on December 14. A UNIFIL force of two armored...
Flash Briefs
Presidential Vacuum Persists in Lebanon
The term of Lebanese President Michel Aoun ended last week, but the country’s parliament has so far failed to elect a successor. The presidential vacuum, which compounds Lebanon’s political and economic problems, persists because Iranian proxy Hezbollah, the dominant political force in Lebanon, has yet to choose a president from among its two main Christian allies: Aoun’s son-in-law, Gebran Bassil, and Suleiman Franjieh, a grandson of Lebanon’s fifth president, also named Suleiman Franjieh. Hezbollah fears that favoring one means losing the support of the other.
Flash Briefs
Facing failure in Lebanon
Why the U.S. should stop subsidizing Tehran’s proxy
Op-eds
America’s mission in Afghanistan isn’t accomplished
The Taliban and al-Qaeda remain threats to the Afghan government — and to Americans.
Op-eds
America in 2020: “Insurrection” or “Incipient Insurgency”?
In the two weeks of disorder that followed the death of George Floyd, 200 cities imposed curfews; 31 states and the District of Columbia called out the National Guard; active-duty U.S. troops deployed in...
Insights
What the alien invasion has wrought
Attacked by a common enemy, earthlings have not united
Op-eds
Dragons and snakes stalk us
We can try to kill them, attempt to keep them at bay, or let them rule the jungle
Op-eds
The Battle of Baghdadi
A victory, to be sure, but Islamism goes marching on
Op-eds
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Edward C. Cardon Named to Board of Advisors of FDD’s Center on Military and Political Power
(Washington, D.C., March 29, 2019) – Lieutenant General (retired) Edward C. Cardon has joined the Board of Advisors for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ (FDD) Center on Military and Poli...
Press Releases
FDD Launches New Center on Military and Political Power
Names H.R. McMaster as Chairman and Bradley Bowman as Senior Director
Press Releases
The Death of al Qaeda: Fawaz Gerges Edition
Few forms of writing are consistently less satisfying than “five myths” pieces. The genre, by its nature, tends toward shallow analysis and the propagation of conventional wisdom unde...
Op-eds
American Interests in Pakistan
Zardari serves them better than Sharif.