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...
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Peshmerga troops running on empty in fight against ISIS
Kurdish Peshmerga forces – arguably the most effective ground troops battling the Islamic State terror group in Iraq – have been fighting for the past three months without a paycheck,...
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A Dire Situation in Iraq
With Iraq’s political crisis worsening as chaos erupted in parliament on Wednesday over Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi plan to reshuffle his cabinet and combat corruption, The Cipher Br...
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The Iran Deal: Persisting Problems
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FDD Welcomes Green Beret Michael Waltz as Non-Resident Senior Fellow
WASHINGTON - Michael Waltz, a lieutenant colonel in the Special Forces (reserve component), has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as a non-resident senior fellow. Waltz, who...
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Slam Dunk II: The Persian Version
“With this deal, we cut off ...
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FDD Senior Fellow Tells Congress of ‘Deep Concerns’ About State of Negotiations with Iran
WASHINGTON – John Hannah, former national security advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, told a congressional committee Tuesday that the United States’ concession to allow Iran to co...
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Gitmo’s Czar Speaks Out
The closure of the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been on Barack Obama’s mind for a long time. After promising time and again during the 2008 campaign...
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Previewing Iraq’s Provincial Elections
This Saturday, Iraqis head to the polls to vote for provincial councils -- the country's first elections since U.S. troops withdrew sixteen months ago. The balloting comes at a time of growi...
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‘Failure to Blacklist Hezbollah Undermines Security’
The Iranian regime’s genocidal threats toward Israel and the European Union’s failure to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization shaped many of the panel discussions at a one-day c...
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The CIA Goes Back to the Movies
Well, it sure beats talking about Benghazi. A few days after the (acting) chief spook wrote his review of Zero Dark Thirty, the Agency itself has returned to its new favorite subje...
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Does the GOP Need a New Foreign Policy?
Can the Republican Party survive without coming to terms with the Bush-Cheney years?