Democratic Frontrunners Are Wrong About Aid for Israel
Putting America’s annual $3.8 billion of military assistance to Israel on the chopping block makes for good politics. But it makes no sense for U.S. national security.
Dick Cheney
U.S. Deterrence in the Middle East Is Collapsing
The withdrawal from Syria is part of a broader pattern of weakness, especially in response to Iran.
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...
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New FDD Report Assesses First Two Years of Trump Administration’s Foreign and National Security Policies
FDD Scholars Provide Nonpartisan Analysis of 21 Key Areas of Global and Regional Instability
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FDD Launches New Center on Military and Political Power
Names H.R. McMaster as Chairman and Bradley Bowman as Senior Director
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Neither Side Gets the Khashoggi Debate Right
The tribalism infecting U.S. domestic politics has unfortunately crept deep into the foreign-policy discourse.
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Once Upon a Time, U.S. Foreign Policy Worked
George H.W. Bush's administration was evidence of what the establishment was capable of.
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FDD Senior Advisor Samantha F. Ravich Appointed to President’s Intelligence Advisory Board
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Helsinki summit an opportunity to win Russia’s support for constraining Iran in Syria
Leading up to his meeting with President Putin of Russia, President Trump must convince Russia to help constrain Iran’s growing presence in Syria, says FDD’s John Hannah in his most recent op-ed f...
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Deceptive Deja Vu
In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...
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Two Cheers for Rex
I rarely find myself thinking along similar lines as fellow Foreign Policy contributor Stephen Walt. Nevertheless, just as I was contemplating an article that would take note of a few o...
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The battle for the lands of the caliphate
Soon after taking office, President Trump ordered his national security advisers to provide “a complete strategi...
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Expelling Digital Demons from U.S. Sensitive Supply Chains
Co-authored by Michael Hsieh. If the U.S. Department of Defense were an economy unto itself, it would be the 20th largest in the world. Like any other advanced modern econo...
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Qatar Needs to Do Its Part
An important goal of President Donald Trump’s meetings with Arab and Islamic leaders this past weekend was to encourage them to shoulder more of the burden in defending our common interests...
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FDD’s CSIF Initiates New Project to Study Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare
(Washington, D.C., Dec. 16 2016) – Recognizing the significant gap in U.S. strategic thinking about how adversaries may use cyberattacks to disrupt the U.S. economy and threaten its nationa...
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Hopes hinge on perilous and long-awaited Mosul assault
The early stages of the campaign to liberate Mosul are revealing exactly why it took so long to seize the city from the bloody grip of ISIS. ... “The delay in libe...
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Hostile nations are taking advantage of Obama’s final days
Why would an Iranian proxy in Yemen provoke a fight with America? There was almost most universal puzzlement among several Middle Eastern diplomats I talked to in the last few days. They...
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The Chilcot Report
The Chilcot report on the Iraq war ought to elicit two emotions: sympathy and pity for former British prime minister Tony Blair. As was evident by late 2002, when Europeans saw the fri...
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Obama’s ‘boy wonder’
Among the most serious charges that President Obama and his supporters have leveled against President Bush and Vice President Cheney: They “cherry-picked intelligence.” The phrase sug...
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It’s the Proliferation, Stupid
As the world prepares for a possible fifth nuclear weapons...