Normandy landings

January 29, 2026 | Bradley Bowman, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

What Trump’s National Defense Strategy Gets Right — and Wrong

The Trump administration quietly released its 2026 National Defense Strategy on Friday evening as the largest storm in years barreled down on much of the United States. Much like the snow that...

June 22, 2025 | Mark Dubowitz, Ben Cohen

US dealt Iran’s nukes a major blow — but here’s why the cheers may be premature

One of the most profound threats to global security for the last thirty years or more has suffered a historic setback that will resonate for decades. In a ruse worthy of World War II’s “Operation...

May 7, 2025 | Ellie Bufkin |

On V-E Day, honor the heroes of World War II by upholding their ideals of freedom

The triumph of the 1944 allied invasion of Europe — secured 80 years ago this week — was no sure thing. World War II was ultimately won by the courage and conviction of young soldiers,...

April 7, 2025 | Ryan Brobst, Bradley Bowman

Arsenal of Democracy

Arming Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel While Strengthening the U.S. Industrial Base

June 20, 2024 | Cleo Paskal |

Remembering Saipan: The battle that reshaped the Pacific

Nine days after D-Day, on June 15, 1944, the Battle of Saipan erupted on the other side of the world. It was to be as pivotal for the Pacific Theater as D-Day was for the war in Europe. Eighty years...

March 15, 2023 | Waller R. Newell, Clifford D. May

The Axis of Tyrannies

It will present an enormous challenge to free nations

February 3, 2022 | Robert Morgus, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Foreign Disinformation: What the US Government Can Start Doing Now

The Kremlin is engaged in a “global influence campaign to destabilize sovereign countries,” including the United States, the U.S. Treasury Department reaffirmed, as it slapped sanctions on four Ukrainians...

August 20, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Endless Jihad

The problem with pledging to end our ‘endless wars.’

June 12, 2019 | Clifford D. May

Trump’s brand of nationalism

In Europe, he defended a political order based on free and sovereign nation-states.

November 29, 2018 | Samantha Ravich |

Where Are the Corporate Patriots?

Regarding China, U.S. companies should step up and do their part to protect national security.

November 5, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi The Jewish Chronicle |

Revealed: Why Israel Delayed D-Day on Iran

When Benjamin Netanyahu stood up at the United Nations General Assembly last September with a cartoonish drawing of a bomb designed to show how close Iran was getting nuclear weapons, close obser...

March 14, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Obama the Bluffer

The president of the United States says he doesn...

February 12, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

The Shape of the War to Come–The View from Beyond

“It’s rather like getting a death threat on the telephone, you know. The nutjob that makes the call isn’t going to do anything, because if he were, he wouldn’t have told y...

October 15, 2009 |

Peace Porridge

President Barack Obama's premature Nobel Peace Prize has catalyzed a useful debate, in which the real question is less the timing of the award than what, exactly, he has won. How are we to r...

June 11, 2009 | |

Living on Obama Beach

"Obama Beach." That phrase was a slip of the tongue by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, speaking last Saturday in Normandy, alongside President Barack Obama and other leaders gathered in hono...

October 9, 2008 | Clifford D. May |

Iran’s War

After a quarter century, too little learned.

June 6, 2008 |

What If Today’s Media Were Reporting on June 6, 1944?

 Roger Kimball thinks their D-Day headline would look something like this: Breaking news! US Army pinned down in bungled assault. Huge civilian casualties....

October 28, 2004 | FrontPageMagazine

Al Qaeda’s Plans for an American Chaos

By: Dr. Walid Phares. When Mohammed Atta slammed his fleet of hijacked planes into the Manhattan skyline on September 11, his masters expected that such a wound would unravel th...

April 14, 2004 | USA Today

Red Tape Threatens to Cage Military Might

Co-Authored by Robert Andrews One lesson emerging from this week's 9/11 commission hearings is that confusion and lack of clarity can be disastrous in fighting terrorism. D...

March 30, 2003 | Weekly Standard

Mugged by Surreality

By Stephen Schwartz FRANCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN a country with a divided soul: on one side, a record of humanistic Enlightenment philosophy and modern art unrivalled by any other nation; on t...