Dwight D. Eisenhower

March 18, 2025 | |

UK Parliament Presented With Harrowing Report on Hamas’s October 7 Atrocities

Hamas’s Primary Goal Was to Slaughter Israelis: A new 318-page report presented to the British Parliament on March 18 outlined Hamas’s extensive atrocities in Israel on October...

March 11, 2025 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Our Foes Would Fill Doran’s Mideast Vacuum

Michael Doran might be jumping the gun in claiming that Donald Trump is channeling Ronald Reagan in the Middle East (Letters, March 10). We don’t know yet whether the president...

July 10, 2024 | Max Lesser |

Navy should hit back harder against Houthi online disinformation

Last month, Capt. Christopher “Chowdah” Hill, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, invited journalists to inspect the flight deck of his carrier while it...

June 4, 2024 | |

Israel Intercepts Houthi Ballistic Missile Targeting Eilat

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it had intercepted a surface-to-surface ballistic missile targeting the southern city of Eilat on June 3. Israel’s long-range Arrow...

January 26, 2024 | |

10 Things to Know About the Houthis

The Houthis are an Iran-backed, Shiite Islamist movement that seized control of Yemen’s capital in 2014 and instigated civil war. Driven by an explicitly antisemitic and anti-American ethos, the Houthis...

December 17, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

What would a maritime security force mean for the Red Sea?

The Iran-backed Houthi attacks have only escalated in the past week by firing on Eilat, having begun in October to match the Hamas massacre.

November 30, 2023 | Joe Truzman, Bill Roggio

U.S. destroyer shoots down Iranian-built drone over the Red Sea

The USS Carney, a U.S. warship that has been at the center of several engagements with the Houthis, has shot down an Iranian-built drone over the Red Sea on Nov. 29. While Iran’s proxies in...

November 29, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Israel eliminates Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander

The Israel Defense Forces, accompanied by border police and members of the Shin Bet security service carried out a targeted raid in Jenin in the northern West Bank on Wednesday, November 29. The Israeli...

November 27, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

US: Houthis’ maritime attacks put international shipping at risk

It is unclear if the Houthis intended to send a message while purposely missing their target or if the missiles were inaccurate.

January 9, 2023 | Mark Dubowitz |

Obama’s Anti-Imperialist Fantasy Bears Bitter Fruit

The longer we refuse to acknowledge the mistakes of the Iran deal, the greater a price we pay

June 13, 2022 | Eric S. Edelman |

What Erdoğan Has Wrought?

Seeking concessions to support Finland and Sweden joining NATO has done damage to Turkey’s standing in Europe and its long-term security interests.

January 28, 2021 | Brig. Gen. Assaf Orion (Res.), RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Moving Israel to CENTCOM: Another Step Into the Light

The new command shift, which is rooted in years of growing collaboration away from the limelight, promises to facilitate bilateral and regional security cooperation and burden sharing, while the IDF-EUCOM-CENTCOM...

January 27, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Apocalypse Next

Planning for the day after a catastrophic cyberattack

January 27, 2021 | Dennis Ross, Juan C. Zarate

Are there pieces of Trump’s foreign policy worth keeping?

The shock of the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Congress and the stain on the image of American democracy will not wear off anytime soon. This moment has amplified the impulse to reject the vestiges of Trump...

October 1, 2020 | Benjamin Jensen, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

A Solarium For Presidential Transition Teams

In the next 100 days, America will go through a transition. Regardless of who wins the U.S. presidential election, thousands of political operatives, pundits, think tankers, and other court whisperers will...

July 19, 2020 | David Maxwell |

Penny wise, pound foolish: The flawed logic of withdrawal from South Korea

The Trump administration announced it is considering withdrawing troops from South Korea because of Seoul’s failure to meet U.S. funding demands in the Special Measures Agreement/burden sharing negotiations....

November 29, 2018 | Samantha Ravich |

Where Are the Corporate Patriots?

Regarding China, U.S. companies should step up and do their part to protect national security.

September 4, 2018 | Annie Fixler, Tyler Stapleton

Prevailing in Today’s Cyber Battlefield Requires Strategic Consensus

In 1953, the United States stood at a precipice. After the death that year of Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin, senior U.S. cabin...

August 22, 2018 | Samantha Ravich

FDD Senior Advisor Samantha F. Ravich Appointed to President’s Intelligence Advisory Board

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August 13, 2018 | John Cappello |

NATO’s Two Percent and Burden Sharing

The debate over burden sharing within NATO is about as old as the alliance itself. However, rarely has the debate spilled into public discourse as acrimoniously as it did at the most recent NATO summi...