John McCain

March 8, 2022 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Bradley Bowman

Apply the Lessons From Ukraine in the Taiwan Strait

With the world’s attention fixed on the national security and humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine caused by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion, a similar disaster is brewing in...

November 16, 2021 | Graham Kennis, Laura Bate, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Agile Multilateralism Is Needed to Address Cybercrime Safe Havens

With the Treasury Department’s announcement of sanctions against the cryptocurrency exchange SUEX and the 30-nation summit led by the White House, the past few weeks have served as a reminder that in...

August 13, 2021 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Natalie Thompson

What the U.S. Competition and Innovation Act Gets Right About Standards

International technical standards set the foundation for the billions of digital devices that people worldwide rely on. The standards ensure that mobile devices produced in China can connect to Swedish...

June 15, 2021 | Natalie Thompson, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Strengthening U.S. Engagement in International Standards Bodies

Read full report Summary Technical standards underpin the functioning of digital devices central to everyday life. What might, at first glance, seem to be a wonky, technical process for figuring out things...

May 13, 2021 | Bradley Bowman |

We Should Not Underestimate China’s Military Ambitions

Suggestions that the People’s Republic is a ‘paper dragon’ are ill-informed and misleading.

June 3, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

What the alien invasion has wrought

Attacked by a common enemy, earthlings have not united

May 9, 2019 | Jonathan Schanzer, Nicole Salter

Oman in the Middle

Muscat’s Balancing Act Between Iran and America

November 21, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Substitutes for victory in Afghanistan

President Trump might want to consider new and improved policy options.

May 31, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Eric S. Edelman

Erdogan’s Hostage Diplomacy

Western Nationals in Turkish Prisons

April 5, 2018 | Romany Shaker

Egypt’s Sisi Reelected with 97 Percent of Vote

With no serious challenger in the race, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi won a second four-year term last week, winning 21,835,387 votes or 97.08 percent of the total, according to...

July 5, 2017 | David Adesnik

House Hawks Look to Outbid Trump on Defense

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis hinted in recent congressional testimony that Presi...

February 9, 2017 | Bill Roggio

White House: Yemen raid a ‘huge success,’ anyone who suggests otherwise owes an apology

White House spokesman Sean Spicer again defended President Donald Trump's first significant military action, a raid on Al Qaeda forces in Yemen that resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an...

March 3, 2016 | John Hannah |

If the Kurds Go Broke, It’s Lights Out for Obama’s War on the Islamic State

Here’s a worrying bit of news: America’s best ally in the war against the Islamic State, Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), is nearly broke. That’s a major proble...

June 29, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Why Germany is the Weakest Western Link in Nuclear Talks With Iran

With the Iran nuclear talks entering the final stretch in Vienna, Germany’s role in the negotiations to end Tehran’s illicit nuclear weapons program has largely escaped scrutiny....

May 22, 2015 |

Call it ‘Fail Jazeera’ — Why The Network is Imploding

For Al Jazeera, May is the cruelest month. In just the past four weeks, two ex-employees have filed separate lawsuits totaling some $100 million, three executives have resigned from its New York-...

May 15, 2015 |

The Camp David Summit: Major or modest moves in U.S.-Gulf ties?

In the run up to Thursday's summit at Camp David, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry had predicted that &ldq...

January 20, 2015 | Michael Ledeen |

The Citizen’s Guide to Regime Change

All of a sudden, it’s OK to talk seriously about regime change in Iran and even elsewhere.  It had been a taboo subject since the final years of the G.W. Bush administration, aside fro...

December 11, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

The Benghazi Report

Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes After a long day on November 13, 2013, Speaker of the House John Boehner walked down the marble hallways of the Longworth House Office Building t...

August 22, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Way Down in Egypt’s Land

President Obama wants to keep aid to Egypt’s new military rulers flowing. So does Republican former ambassador John Bolton. Democratic (and Muslim) congressman Keith Ellison wants to cut ai...

June 19, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

Is Obama a Berliner?

BERLIN — Obama: Ist er ein Berliner? The German weekly Die Zeit posed this question...