Israel Can’t Substitute for the U.S. in the Middle East
The Jewish state can protect its neighborhood, but the Persian Gulf needs a superpower’s attention.
Hudson Institute
Trump’s Poland Problem Just Got Bigger
The Polish government’s threat to arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and efforts to destroy the opposition are signs that the European nation’s leadership will be a problem for the president-elect.
Op-eds
American conservatives love Hungary’s Orbán — but ignore his wooing of China
Excerpt Hungary’s flowering relationship with China, on full display during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s triumphant two-day visit to Budapest, is a blazing three-alarm fire. Will America...
Op-eds
United States Cyber Force
A Defense Imperative
Monographs
Why it’s important to continue our support for Ukraine
Russian victory in Ukraine would give comfort and confidence to those who hate America
Op-eds
Captagon: Assad’s Deadly Drug Of Choice Expands To Israel
Israel’s Ministry of Defense thwarted an attempt to smuggle thousands of captagon tablets into the Gaza Strip last week. The news was overshadowed by soaring tensions, amidst continued unrest in the...
Op-eds
Let Ukraine Defeat the Russia-Iranian War Machine
Biden’s chronic risk aversion is prolonging the war and making it more costly
Op-eds
Time to Sanction the Kremlin’s Ministry of Truth
When media platforms obey their paymasters’ orders to become complicit in their crimes, they are no longer media.
Op-eds
Ukraine war shows America could be outgunned without investing in energetics
Energetic materials — critical chemicals that help determine the range, size, and explosive power of missiles and rockets — are in dangerously short supply for American interests, write Nadia Schadlow and Brady Helwig of the Hudson Institute.
Op-eds
Why the IOC Doesn’t Deserve Gold for Its Olympics Campaign
While more than 1 million Uyghurs and other minorities suffer mass detention, forced labor and torture in Xinjiang in western China, many of the world’s greatest athletes competed in Beijing at the...
Op-eds
Dispatches from troubled lands
They deserve attention – BHL’s self-promotion notwithstanding
Op-eds
What To Expect When You’re Expecting A National Defense Strategy
Excerpt In July, Rear Adm. Mike Studeman, director of intelligence for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, warned that “it’s only a matter of time” until China resorts to military force and suggested that...
Op-eds
Unfriending Pakistan
A reconsideration of the relationship is long overdue
Op-eds
A Just Response to Beijing’s COVID-19 Abuses
Excerpt Nearly 18 months after word of a deadly new virus began leaking out of Wuhan, China, the Chinese government’s response remains fundamentally hostile to international cooperation and transparency....
Op-eds
The Realignment
On Iran, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.
Op-eds
The Middle East’s religious minorities are facing extinction. The world must act.
Pope Francis began his first-ever papal trip to Iraq on Friday, marking a watershed moment in relations between the Catholic Church and the Middle East. Yet for all the optimism of the Pope’s message,...
Op-eds
Is Esper’s New Plan For The Navy Enough For The Indo-Pacific?
Recent wargames suggest the U.S. Navy would have a hard time fighting China, but this might be nothing compared to infighting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and his successors will have to manage to build...
Op-eds
Guam needs Aegis Ashore
American military superiority compared to China has eroded in recent years. The frequent inability of Congress and the Pentagon to provide timely capabilities for combatant commanders represents an important...
Op-eds
Was Nixon Wrong About China?
It might be time to question the conventional wisdom.
Op-eds
How China Tries to Intimidate Its Dissidents Living Overseas
Explaining the CCP’s “Fox Hunt” program.