Joseph Stalin

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.

Reading the UNGA tea leaves

America’s enemies and adversaries reveal their intentions

Will the Russia-Ukraine War lead to World War III?

So far, the conflict has remained within manageable bounds for the international community, but the prospect of further conflagration is not far off.

The problem with Republican isolationism

Abandoning Ukraine is no way to make America great again

Anniversary of a forever war

Seventy years ago, the Korean War didn’t quite end

Cloak and Swagger

REVIEW: ‘Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West’ by Calder Walton

Renewing NATO

Peace requires deterrence which requires military might

Time to Stop Disruptive Russian-Serbian Machinations in the Balkans

While most of the West focuses on the war in Ukraine, Moscow and Belgrade are fueling the fires over Kosovo on eve of sensitive historic anniversary.

Turn Russia’s paranoia against it: Fight back in the information war

A Russian bureaucrat and his wife are at home with their child. They’re disillusioned, asking themselves, “Is it the kind of life I dreamt of?” Then the man decides to contact the CIA. “We...

The Stalinist approach to peacemaking

It’s simple, homicidal logic: No Israel, no problem

Let’s turn the tables on Russia’s information warfare with some of our own

Vladimir Putin delivers an address every May 9 to celebrate Victory Day, which marks the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II — what Russians dub the “Great Patriotic...

Hezbollah Is Missing from President Biden’s Corruption Agenda

Making global corruption a national security priority is the right decision. Recognizing Hezbollah’s systematic reliance on corruption to facilitate its illicit finance networks would make the White House strategy more effective.

Let’s use jazz to push back against Russia — it once worked before!

I like to joke that I moved to the United States from my homeland of Serbia because of American “psychological warfare.” But it wasn’t shadowy CIA operations that won my “heart and mind.” It...

The Axis of Tyrannies

It will present an enormous challenge to free nations

The Chinese Communist Party’s Threat to America

Reading Putin’s mind

What must the Russian dictator be thinking?

Anything goes

Extremist ideologies are proliferating

Waging Psychological War Against Russia

The U.S. has a real opportunity to erode Putin’s propaganda.

Israel Needs to Speak Out and Hold Putin Accountable for His Crimes and Lies

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that his “special military operation” aims to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, portraying his troops as freeing ethnic Russians from a fascistic regime in Kyiv. Yet despite...

Ukraine: Peace Through Victory

Russia’s modern day foreign ministry seems to follow the old Soviet negotiating precept: What is mine is mine, what is yours is up for negotiation.