John McCain

March 1, 2012 | Rebeccah Heinrichs Roll Call

Obama Suffering From Defense Rhetoric Gap

The nation’s top military official concedes that President Barack Obama’s plan to cut the Pentagon’s budget will leave the United States with a force that assumes more risk and...

February 27, 2012 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard |

Free Syria

Maybe the murder of an American journalist in Syria last week will focus the American president’s mind. Marie Colvin was killed, along with a French photojournalist, when troops loyal to -P...

February 9, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet

Hostage Crisis

Since last month, 19 Americans working with pro-democracy nonprofit organizations have been under investigation for trumped-up charges of operating without proper registration. On Monday, the Egy...

January 5, 2012 | |

It’s Time to Tip the Scales in Syria

Obama must do more to force out the tyrant Assad

November 11, 2011 | Mark Dubowitz

U.S. Policy in Syria

Written Testimony for the Record Contributors to this testimony included: Mark Dubowitz (FDD), Reuel Marc Gerecht (FDD), Tony Badran (FDD), Ammar Abdulhamid (FDD), Jo...

November 8, 2011 | FPI/FDD |

Towards a Post-Assad Syria

    Towards a Post-Assad Syria: Options for the United States and Like-Minded Nations to Further Assist the Anti-Regime Syrian Opposition A Discussion Paper Prepared by the Foreign...

November 7, 2011 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

A Terrorist Released

Binyam Mohamed is ...

October 31, 2011 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard |

What Syria Policy?

The threat against the life of the American ambassador to Syria comes during a bad streak for the Obama administration. First was the Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United State...

October 27, 2011 | Tony Badran NOW Lebanon |

Not Total Recall

The Obama administration is having a hard time explaining why the US ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, has returned to Washington. Despite the apparent threat against Ford’s life, the admin...

October 25, 2011 | Policy Options for U.S. Response |

The Assad Regime’s Continuing Mass Murder of Syrians

  The Assad Regime’s Continuing Mass Murder of Syrians: Policy Options for U.S. Response   A Joint Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation...

September 22, 2011 |

Disappearing Defense Funds

Last week the Senate Appropriations Committee fully funded the Obama administration’s $407 million request to develop what some are sarcastically calling “Might Eventually Almost Do S...

July 5, 2011 | |

Pawlenty’s Foreign Policy

Is he on the John McCain wing of the Republican party?

June 15, 2011 |

9/11 Plotters Are Araigned

. . . and, finally, the commissions may prove their worth.

June 15, 2011 |

De-Commissioned

Will Pentagon blunders mean the end of military trials for terrorists?

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review

Beyond Mugabe’s Madness

Even by the ridiculously low procedural standards of Africa's club of presidents-for-life, last Friday's poll in Zimbabwe was a truly pathetic exercise. As Barry Bearak, the Pulitzer Pr...

June 15, 2011 | Weekly Standard

Are We Safer?

Yes, George W. Bush has made America more secure since 9/11.

June 15, 2011 | |

To Meet Or Not To Meet?

Amidst Obama's folly, can we finally pronounce Bush's Iran policy a disaster?

June 15, 2011 |

Lead, Senator

The McCain campaign reassures on surveillance reform, but …

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review |

Rising Sun and Dark Continent: Japan’s Courtship of Africa

On May 28, forty African heads of state and government trooped into the Pacifico Conference Centre in the Japanese port city of Yokohama to join their host, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukada, in kickin...

June 15, 2011 | World Defense Review

U.S. Engagement of Africa in the National Interest

Earlier this year, citing an array of new initiatives including the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), and the President's Emergency Plan for...