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Iran May Be on the Verge of a Nuclear Weapon; Will Israel and the United States Act?
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu just met in Washington — and not a moment too soon. A team of scientists in Iran is reportedly working to short-cut Tehran’s route to nuclear weapons in case the Iranian leadership orders their complete construction.
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Trump must counter Vladimir Putin’s coming deception games — here’s how
Vladimir Putin’s regime is readying a new bag of diplomatic tricks for the second Trump administration, as the Kremlin angles to lure Trump’s incoming national-security team into helping...
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5 cyber issues the next presidential administration needs to prioritize immediately
The next administration must do better on cyber than previous ones, two experts behind a new McCrary Institute and Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0 report argue.
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Twenty-three years into the long war
The threat matrix keeps expanding
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When did the US lose Afghanistan?
August 15, 2021, was the day Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, and the US lost the war. Or was it? After following the war for over two decades, it’s become clear that Afghanistan wasn’t lost in...
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America’s ‘self-defeat’ in Afghanistan
Three years after the U.S. withdrawal, lessons should have been learned
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2040: The year Iran predicts Israel will be destroyed. Now is the time to prepare
The Islamic Republic is developing a comprehensive strategy to bring about Israel’s elimination as a sovereign state.
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Listening to our enemies
Our intelligence agencies must be allowed to do that
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Iran Is Winning the War
Right now things look good for Israel. But the Islamic Republic is playing the long game. And its advantages, alas, are many.
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Lone soldiers
Israelis will fight on their own if they must
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U.S. Should Sanction Tehran’s Central Banker and His Lieutenants
The United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned a Central Bank of Iran (CBI) network on February 14 for smuggling sensitive American technology to Iran. The designation once again emphasizes CBI’s...
Policy Briefs
Israel Moves Against Pro-Hezbollah TV Station’s Local Operations
Latest Developments Israel on November 13 approved a crackdown on the local operations of a pro-Hezbollah TV station that has been inciting against it during the Gaza war. The decision against...
Flash Briefs
Israel’s enemies may see the war in Gaza as a road to Jerusalem – analysis
The Gaza Strip was first occupied by Egypt after the partition of British Mandate Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state.
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Hamas, Israel, and the danger of safe havens
The Hamas terrorist group shocked Israel by carrying out a coordinated assault unlike anything the world has seen since Lashkar-e-Taiba’s terror assault on Mumbai in 2007 or al-Qaeda’s attack on 9/11....
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Eyeless in Gaza
How the U.S. blinded Israeli intelligence gathering efforts on Hamas and other Palestinian groups inside Lebanon
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America cannot ignore the Middle East
Despite calls to refocus American grand strategy towards Europe and Asia, events in Israel show that the United States cannot abandon its commitments in the Middle East.
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Martyrs – and newsmen – for freedom
Jimmy Lai and Dmitry Muratov put their lives on the line
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Biden at the NATO Summit in Vilnius: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
When President Joe Biden entered office he was quick to declare that “America is back.” After his predecessor routinely expressed low regard for America’s European allies, Biden declared that...
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Putin’s to-do list
What would happen if he were to prevail in Ukraine?