Mark Milley

Detecting and Halting an Iranian Weaponization Effort

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Trump will rue recklessly yanking security from Mike Pompeo, others in Iran’s crosshairs

Newly confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday canceled the personal security detail assigned to retired Gen. Mark Milley, following his boss President Trump’s decision to revoke...

When did the US lose Afghanistan?

August 15, 2021, was the day Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, and the US lost the war. Or was it?  After following the war for over two decades, it’s become clear that Afghanistan wasn’t lost in...

Deterring Iran’s Dash to the Bomb

Go-to-Zero: Joe Biden’s Withdrawal Order and the Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan

Gaza Rockets Pierce White House Optimism on Middle East

The Biden administration’s advertising of its success in tamping down conflict across the region is both premature and unwarranted.

Advance U.S. Interests by Giving Ukraine the Weapons It Needs Now

Top General Suggests Administration Would Tolerate Iran Having Nuclear Weapons

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark A. Milley, said at a congressional hearing on Thursday that the United States “remains committed, as a matter of policy, that Iran will not have...

WAR IN UKRAINE UPDATE: Russians Down U.S. Drone, Iran Sends Putin Ammo

Two Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jets “conducted an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” of an American MQ-9 Reaper drone performing routine...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: December

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: August

Half baked

Climate change is not a national security emergency

Foil the Financiers of Iran’s Terrorism

The Biden administration believes Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a terrorist organization. So why lift sanctions on banks that help fund it?

Germany helps Putin with its double standard on arms exports

Even as the U.S. intelligence community warns that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could come this month, the German government has rebuffed Ukrainian requests for defensive weapons. While Kyiv requested...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November

The Taliban’s Man in Washington

Zalmay Khalilzad is blaming Afghans for the failures that resulted from his deal with the Taliban.

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September

The Taliban Is Using the Doha Accord to Protect Al-Qaeda

That's one of many problems with ‘over the horizon’ counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan war critics blame Biden for the current chaos. They need to look in the mirror.

The tragedy’s primary cause was the decision to withdraw, not the way the withdrawal was conducted.

The Afghan debacle will destroy the Biden presidency

Americans once supported military withdrawal, but they will punish a president who leads the US to defeat