National Security Strategy

February 10, 2025 | Bradley Bowman, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Trump is Right to Prioritize Homeland Missile Defense

President Trump issued an executive order, “The Iron Dome for America,” on January 27, jumpstarting a major effort to deploy and maintain a “next generation” missile shield to better...

July 21, 2024 | Cleo Paskal |

What could a Trump-Vance China policy look like?

Vance’s focus on China is not surprising. In his personal and professional life he’s seen the way People’s Republic of China actions have affected the lives of Americans.

June 28, 2024 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Should Biden let Hezbollah and the Houthis get a say in Gaza?

The US administration's 'no war whatsoever' policy signals to Iran that America is toothless and that the Islamic Republic can act with impunity

May 15, 2024 | Jacob Nagel |

America’s dangerous game with Israeli security

It is crucial that Israel clearly and loudly communicates to Sullivan the drawbacks of the proposed normalization and the defense pact and does not rush into signing.

November 30, 2023 | Dr. Brenda Shaffer |

US International energy policy toward the 2024 elections

While international energy policy is not on the ballot in the 2024 US elections, the election outcome will profoundly impact the U.S. role in international energy developments. Current U.S. energy policies have determined new rules of American engagement in the international arena. ...

November 8, 2023 | Jacob Nagel |

Israel must completely separate war in Gaza from the ‘day after’ plans – opinion

Israel will have to deal with Iran and Hezbollah later, while the world is starting to understand, even if slowly, that the Iranian problem is not Israel’s problem alone.

October 28, 2023 | Jacob Nagel |

What should become of Gaza the day after Israel’s decisive victory?

"If Israel seeks a flourishing existence on this now-shock-ridden piece of land, the approaches to Gaza must fundamentally change," writes the author.

October 6, 2023 | Jacob Nagel |

Israel must rely only on itself when it comes to existential threats

Nuclear enrichment on Saudi soil, and an American-Israeli "defense treaty," as part of normalization with the Saudis, are incompatible with Israeli's National Security Strategy (NSS), especially when the agreements are likely to come at the expense of preventing Iran from dashing toward the bomb.

August 4, 2023 | Jacob Nagel |

It’s time for a policy change on the northern border

Nasrallah must be disabused of the notion that he has managed to deter Israel. His mistakes and his attempts to change the rules of the game by establishing new facts on the ground must be "exploited" by Israel in order to massively undermine the Iranian doctrine, by destroying the PGM manufacturing facilities.

July 26, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Why Kerry got the cold shoulder in Beijing

Xi Jinping doesn’t see global warming as a crisis

June 26, 2023 | Annie Fixler, Sae Furukawa

U.S.-South Korean Cyber Cooperation Can Combat North Korean Threats

Washington and Seoul held a high-level cybersecurity meeting over the course of three days last week as a follow-up to a joint pledge in April to increase cyber defense collaboration. This type of dialogue...

May 3, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

The new – or perhaps renewed – Cold War

You can’t win it if you don’t know you’re in it

April 7, 2023 | Jacob Nagel |

Iran is pushing Israel toward a multi-theater conflagration

A partial nuclear agreement, even a broad one, will buy the world only few weeks or maybe few months, alongside a substantial easing of sanctions, allowing the regime to recover economically and to continue financing and backing terrorism all over the world.

March 6, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Biden’s diplomacy without deadlines erodes US-Gulf alliance

Whatever its Gulf policy, the Biden administration’s approach should be coherent, but that has simply not been the case

October 17, 2022 | David Adesnik |

Biden’s New National Security Strategy: A Lot of Trump, Very Little Obama

A renewed focus on great-power rivalry ratifies a sea change in U.S. thinking.

August 21, 2022 | Ivana Stradner |

Kremlin Claims Monkeypox Could Be a Secret U.S. Bioweapon

Washington needs to stop being a pushover in the global info war.

August 12, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Ivana Stradner

Time to Sanction the Kremlin’s Ministry of Truth

When media platforms obey their paymasters’ orders to become complicit in their crimes, they are no longer media.

June 17, 2022 | LTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster, Gabriel Scheinmann

U.S. Restraint Has Created an Unstable and Dangerous World

Decades of ignoring the menaces posed by Russia and China has led the West to a precipice.

April 27, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Biden’s overdue National Security Strategy

If he understands the threats, it won’t be what he planned

April 9, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

To be effective, US policy on PRC must be actioned early and often

‘Great Powers are expected to live up to commitments to international rules and norms even if those rules work against that country’s interests—credibility is more important. Second, to be effective, Policy must be constantly repeated.’