Time to integrate State Partnership Program in Pentagon planning
As currently used, the program is a missed opportunity, especially when America needs to be strengthening its relationships abroad.
Maryland
Does Big Tech Have an Anti-Semitism Problem?
Employees at Google and Amazon launched a petition drive this week to persuade both companies to end their contracts with the world’s only Jewish state. Google and Amazon can send a powerful...
Op-eds
Biden needs to get China to cooperate with the pandemic’s origins investigation
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, acknowledged in mid-June that there was a “premature push” to dismiss the theory that COVID-19 initially spread from...
Op-eds
Only the Chinese Communist Party Knows the Origins of the COVID Pandemic
And it has been withholding, deflecting, and obfuscating the entire time.
Op-eds
What Red Line Tells Us About Syria’s Chemical Weapons
Book review: Joby Warrick’s book brings to life the history and reaction to Syria’s chemical weapons program and the difficulty in eliminating it.
Op-eds
What the National Guard Deployment to D.C. Tells Us
The failure to protect the U.S. Capitol from an insurrectionist attack on January 6 is understandably dominating headlines. Leaders and investigators are right to ask how such a horrible breach of security...
Op-eds
The Emerging Sino-Russian Alliance
How the 'great powers' are reconfiguring their partnerships for a new era. Plus, why it matters that al-Qaeda’s media chief was killed in Taliban country.
Op-eds
Modernize The National Guard’s State Partnership Program
Low-key deployments by citizen-soldiers have strengthened ties with 89 nations – but some crucial partners are missing.
Op-eds
American actor James Woods urges Congress to pass anti-BDS resolution
He seeks resolution based on Austria's anti-BDS measure.
Op-eds
Bringing the Middle East Back Home
The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas
Op-eds
America’s military goes to war against the coronavirus
U.S. service members and Department of Defense (DOD) civilians take an oath to defend America “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” As America fights to defeat the novel coronavirus, U.S. soldiers,...
Op-eds
Israel Renegotiates COVID-19 Testing Lab Deal With China
Amidst the severe economic downturn stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are desperate to increase the availability of testing kits, a prerequisite for lifting stay at home orders. China, whose...
Policy Briefs
IS Using Front Companies to Support Terrorism
As the Islamic State (IS) has been beaten back in Iraq and ...
Policy Briefs
The war against history
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by Georg...
Op-eds
Erdogan’s Tactics in Turkey–and Challenges in Washington
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is coming to Washington this week offic...
Op-eds
Economic Sanctions and Terror Finance Expert Joins FDD’s Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance
Washington, DC -- Eric B. Lorber, an expert on anti-money laundering policy and terror finance issues, has been named senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on...
Press Releases
The Gulf Cooperation Council Camp David Summit: Any Results?
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee: thank you on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies for the opportunity to testify before...
Legislative Testimonies
Royal Snub Signals US Disarray on Iran
Last Saturday, White House officials were boasting about the significance of Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud's presence at a summit of Gulf leaders at Camp David, Maryl...
Op-eds
No-Show at Camp David: What the Saudi King’s Snub Really Means
“I’ll see you next week.” According to a senior U.S. official, that’s what Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ...
Op-eds
Holding Assad Accountable
Co-authored by Gregory D. Koblentz The United States and possibly allies are preparing to launch military strikes against Syria in response to Syrian president Bashar al-As...