The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) on Friday released an unclassified version of its findings regarding the origins of COVID-19, noting its inability to reach definitive conclusions without Chinese cooperation....
A new report also looks at demographics and points to concerning trends in jihadist hotbeds.
Co-written by William R. Graham, Henry Cooper, Fritz Ermarth, Peter Vincent Pry President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran is not just a bad deal. It is the wor...
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...
Our attention these days with regard to security is understandably riveted on the Islamic State, or ISIS, and its hideous decapitations, rapes and live immolations. We must deal with the...
Co-authored with Peter Vincent Pry In a recent letter to investors, billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Singer warned that an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, is "the most signifi...
At the beginning of President Obama’s first term, there was reason to believe that an Open Fuel Standard (OFS) could pass within four years. It did not, and now the OFS faces a different po...
By Dr. J. Peter Pham Understandably, the foreign policy focus of United States policymakers and media has been trained lately primarily on the ongoing events in the Greater Midd...
In intelligence it’s not so much what you don’t know as what you won’t know. Al Qaeda was initially formed in 1988, when the Soviet Union announced the humiliating with...
There's lots to wonder about in the Key Judgments of the latest National Intelligence Estimate, which informs us with "high confidence" that Iran halted its nuclear bomb program four years a...
Charles Freeman's withdrawal from his appointment as the chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) offers an opportunity to assess whether personal views should have any role in in...
Are the Chinese people alone now?
Winston Churchill: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
Imagine Reagan tearing down 'that wall' with 'engagement.'
Hangu is the latest district to fall under Taliban control. The government signed peace agreements in the red agencies/ districts; purple districts are under de facto Taliban control;...
WITH AROUND 36 billion barrels of proven petroleum reserves-the largest in Africa and the eighth largest in the world-Nigeria is America's fifth-largest supplier of oil. In 2006, the United...
Last week President George W. Bush created a new military command for Africa: I am pleased to announce my decision to create a Department of Defense Unified Combatant Comm...
Last week, while much of the coverage by media outlets in the United States and, consequently, American public attention and policy debate remained riveted, as in the preceding weeks, on the situ...
Appearing Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced the creation of a new, unified military command for Africa. The move represents the administration&...
Last month, I discussed in this column the immense importance of the Nigerian elections scheduled for April 21, 2007, concluding: "If President Obasanjo manages to hand ov...