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November 10, 2026 | Jacob Breach, Pavneet Kaur

8 Tactics Foreign Actors Used To Influence the 2026 Midterms

Influence operations linked to Russia, China, and Iran targeted America’s 2026 midterm elections. While goals differed, tactics overlapped: fabricated news reports, hijacked branding of trusted outlets...

October 14, 2026 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Iraq After the US Military Withdrawal: Militia Disarmament Will Decide the Outcome

Iraq is at a new crossroads. On October 8 and 12, Iranian drones targeted Kurdish Iranian opposition groups based in northern Iraq. These are just several of more than 1,000 attacks by Iran on Iraq over...

February 15, 2026 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Trump could be missing the opportunity to rebuild the Navy efficiently and quickly

On Friday the White House released its new Maritime Access Plan, laying out a comprehensive strategy for addressing shortfalls in the maritime-industrial base. The plan highlights a number of innovative...

November 14, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

China’s kicking our butts in warship-building — here’s how we can catch up

US shipbuilding is in trouble. China builds 200 merchant ships a year for every one America builds. The gap is smaller for warships, but falling behind there is more dangerous — and Beijing...

July 30, 2025 | Jiwon Ma, Stefan Videnovic

New York Acts To Avert Cyberattacks Against State’s Drinking Water Systems

With the federal government slow to act, New York State government is stepping in to protect its water systems from cyber threats. On July 22, Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new $2.5 million cybersecurity...

July 28, 2025 | Enia Krivine |

Marco Rubio Fights Lawfare with Sanctions — and Wins

A UN official is getting her due for persecuting Israel and the United States using a bogus international court system — and she won’t be the last. On July 9, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed sanctions...

October 2, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

The problem with American diplomacy

Our enemies aren’t interested in “win-win solutions”

February 23, 2022 | Samantha Ravich, Trevor Logan

It’s Time to Talk About the Shortcomings of Cybersecurity in the Water Industry

In the United States, there are 16 “critical infrastructure” sectors so vital for the fundamental health, safety, and prosperity of the country that their incapacitation or destruction would have catastrophic...

November 3, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Maj. Shane “Axl” Praiswater

Great Power Competition Comes Home to America

Our leaders’ efforts to heal divisions among our fellow citizens are key to national defense.

September 21, 2016 | Clifford D. May

“Political correctness” aims at a new target

In “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” George Orwell’s classic novel about a totalitarian and dystopian future, the ruling Party develops “Newspeak” as way to limit freedom of e...

July 22, 2015 |

Heading Toward An EMP Catastrophe

For over a decade now, since the Congressional EMP Commission delivered its first report to Congress eleven years ago in July of 2004, various Senate and House committees have heard from numerous scie...

April 27, 2012 |

Virginia Detainee Law is Dangerously Unconstitutional

Co-authored by Charles D. Stimson The United States has just lost a key ally in the fight against al-Qaeda terrorists: the residents of Virginia, and state employees in par...

September 14, 2011 | Jonathan Schanzer Middle East Quarterly

Early Warnings Ignored

September 11: A Decade Later

August 4, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

This War Would Be Hell, TOO

If a top intelligence expert said America was not prepared for war and, indeed, that if we went to war "we would lose," that would worry you, wouldn't it? Start worrying. The expert...

June 23, 2010 | Thomas Joscelyn The Long War Journal

Times Square Bomber Discusses Taliban Ties at Plea Hearing

During a plea hearing in New York on Monday, Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square on May 1, pled guilty to all of the charges levied against him and discussed his...

November 18, 2009 | Roll Call

It’s Time to Open the Fuel Market to Methanol

By: Dr. Robert Zubrin. Here's a fact that is worthy of lawmakers' attention: Methanol is currently selling internationally, without any subsidy, for $1 per gallon....

November 4, 2009 | CTR Vantage

Al-Shabaab Recruiting in the West

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Madeleine Gruen, Sara R. Westfall Beginning in late 2007, dozens of young men of Somali descent disappeared from diaspora c...

June 2, 2008 |

Approaches to America’s Energy Crisis

Skyrocketing oil prices ensure that it is no longer novel to say that America faces an energy crisis. While the economic consequences of our oil dependence are the most obvious,...

February 23, 2006 |

The Politically Correct vs. the Politically Ridiculous

No heroes in the port drama.

August 17, 2003 |

The Dysfunctional House of Saud

By Stephen Schwartz THERE COMES A TIME in the history of every oppressive state when the need for change is suddenly and widely understood to be imperative. Inevitably, an incident occur...