Mississippi

June 18, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

IDF increases naval strength with new logistics support vessel

The Israeli Navy received a new ship on June 16 with the arrival of the INS Komemiyut. It is the second of two new landing craft, known as logistics support vessels (LSV), that Israel has obtained in the...

June 15, 2023 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, Jerry Hendrix

Marines Need to Move beyond Their Amphibious-Assault Past

Shifting the USMC's concept of operations will help confront China.

February 1, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Soldiers of Misfortune

The Wagner Group isn’t playing

September 21, 2022 | Annie Fixler, Richard Goldberg, Michael Sugden

Washington Punishes Iranian Cyber Actors While Preparing to Enrich Regime

The U.S. Treasury Department issued two sets of sanctions against Iran in mid-September for its malicious cyber operations. While the sanctions and other corresponding U.S. government actions raise awareness...

January 23, 2013 |

The Last Liberal: The Legacy of Joe Lieberman

In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...

January 18, 2012 | Clifford D. May

Militant Islamism, Islamism, Islam

A senior U.S. military advisor attempts their “disaggregation” – not entirely successfully.

August 26, 2010 | Clifford D. May

Muslims + Mainstream Media = Madness

Wow! The Washington Post has identified “rabble-rousing outsiders!” I don’t think I’ve heard language like that since southern segregationists complained about young civil...

October 2, 2008 |

The Ripple Effect of High Oil Prices

The global economy depends on a superinfrastructure of air, land, and sea transportation networks to move basic goods, primary energy, and people across borders. The global manufacturing industry, particularly in Asia, has thrived due to the massive profits gleaned from items with a high price to weight ratio, such as food, clothing and information technology, that were transported cheaply all over the world. However, the volatile nature of oil prices has shaken the foundation of the transportation-oriented global economy, and sent ripple effects throughout numerous sectors.

April 11, 2007 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Peacekeepers with No Peace to Keep

Somewhere along the crooked path that runs from the collapse of the Soviet Union that signaled the emergence of the United States as the world's lone superpower to the seemingly intractable...

September 7, 2005 | Clifford D. May

Preparation or Prevention?

Americans are distressed that the government was ill-prepared to quickly assist disaster victims in New Orleans. But here's a fact that should trouble us more: The government could have aver...

October 22, 2003 | Clifford D. May

God Forbid

Religious intolerance is flatly un-American. So let's everybody just get off the back of Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin. Boykin, of course, is the decorated veteran of special oper...