Niccolo Machiavelli

September 2, 2020 | Cleo Paskal |

Protection from China’s Comprehensive National Power Requires Comprehensive National Defense

Those trying to describe China’s strategy often invoke the two-thousand-five-hundred-year-old Art of War. But some more recent sources might be helpful as well – in particular documents looking at...

May 28, 2020 | Eliora Katz |

The Old and New Persian Empires

Iraq is invaded and its despot is deposed. Iran encroaches, amassing territory covering Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The year is 539 BCE, though it eerily echoes events following the fall of Saddam...

December 7, 2015 | Michael Ledeen

What if the Jihad Fails?

Napoleon famously preferred lucky generals to the most brilliant ones, and there is no doubt that luck plays an enormous role in life, whether through our own individual efforts or from earth-sha...

February 24, 2014 | Michael Ledeen |

What If We Were Winning But Nobody Noticed?

It’s all about winning and losing, but the best man doesn’t always win, and outcomes frequently have more to do with luck than with merit.  Brilliant strategies fail, and fools s...

July 8, 2013 | Michael Ledeen

Obama’s New World Order: Power to Our Enemies, Death to Our Friends & a Fish in the President’s Face

The anti-Morsi, anti-Muslim Brotherhood, and therefore anti-Obama demonstrations in Egypt are the biggest in human history.  It’s quite something, an historic event.  Whatever the...

December 14, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

Dictators and Double Standards

As we watch the Syrian dictator struggle to survive, and the Egyptian would-be dictator run from an angry mob, and as we think back to the many fallen dictators of the recent past – Gorbach...

August 13, 2012 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Most Dangerous Man in the World

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ali Khamenei

May 31, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

Madness in High Places

I am just back from a pilgrimage to Machiavelli’s town, San Casciano, and I’m happy to report that the sort of “virile Christianity” he favored is still alive and active i...

May 22, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

When the State Steals, the People Become Thieves

Friday we sailed around Capri and then across to the Bay of Salerno.  Very few boats around, and nary a oee of the luxury yachts so common in those waters.  We went to a seaside restaur...

July 15, 2011 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

Are We Going to Do Anything to Those Who Kill Americans?

At first, I thought all the statements — about Iranian support for terrorists (in both Iraq and Afghanistan) who kill Americans — were parting messages from government officials on th...

September 3, 2010 | FrontPage Magazine |

Interview: Accomplice to Evil

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Michael A. Ledeen, a noted political analyst and a Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is the author of The Iranian Tim...

November 10, 2009 | The American Spectator

Michael Ledeen on Iran and Democracy

I hadn't seen Michael Ledeen in years when I bumped into him at a party for George Gilder's new book, The Israel Test. An admirer of Machiavelli, Ledeen has for years focused o...

October 21, 2009 | |

The Problem of Evil

Since 9/11, Michael Ledeen has been warning that this war against America was never about Afghanistan or Iraq, but has always been a regional war, with malefactors are up to no good around the wo...

October 13, 2009 | |

Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West by FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen

Press Release October 13, 2009 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 [email protected]   Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the...

September 10, 2008 |

Machiavelli on Modern Leadership

Niccolo Machiavelli, one of the eminent minds of the Italian Renaissance, spent much of a long and active lifetime trying to determine and understand what...

August 14, 2008 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

War and Democracy

For many centuries, it was taken for granted that no modern country could move from dictatorship to democracy without considerable violence. The first wave of democratic revolution–the last...

February 8, 2006 | Clifford D. May

The Cartoon Intifada

Muslim demonstrators have been torching embassies, stoning churches and threatening mass murder – to protest cartoons characterizing Muslims as violent extremists. They have been b...