Hudson Institute

Islamist Turkey: A Base for Muslim Brotherhood Jihadism

For Pax Silica, Not All Gulf Partners Are Created Equal

The United States must apply stricter standards to Pax Silica partners, as Qatar’s track record does not justify its inclusion in a trusted AI security coalition.

Shaping the Future of Cyber Diplomacy

Review for State Department Reauthorization

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.

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.

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...

United States Cyber Force

A Defense Imperative

Why it’s important to continue our support for Ukraine

Russian victory in Ukraine would give comfort and confidence to those who hate America

Building Partner Capabilities for Cyber Operations

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...

Let Ukraine Defeat the Russia-Iranian War Machine

Biden’s chronic risk aversion is prolonging the war and making it more costly

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.

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.

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...

Dispatches from troubled lands

They deserve attention – BHL’s self-promotion notwithstanding

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...

Unfriending Pakistan

A reconsideration of the relationship is long overdue

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....

The Realignment

On Iran, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.

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,...