Normandy

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...

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.

December 15, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Mark Dubowitz

Deceptive Deja Vu

In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...

May 23, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Manchester Attack Shows How Terrorists Learn

Yesterday’s terrorist attack that struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in Britain’s Manchester Arena—leaving 22 people dead and 59 injured, by the ...

July 27, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Europe terror attacks spotlight security failings amid refugee crisis

The European policy Germans call “Willkommenskultur” -- the enthusiastic embrace of refugees from Syria and other Muslim-majority countries -- has morphed into a summer of terror....

March 14, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Obama the Bluffer

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

June 15, 2011 | American Thinker

How to Measure al Qaeda’s Defeat

  In an article published in the Washington Post on Friday May 30, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden is quoted as portraying al Qaeda movement as     "essential...

June 14, 2011 | The Weekly Standard

Operation Phantom Strike

How the U.S. military is demolishing al Qaeda in Iraq.

June 13, 2011 | Counterterrorism Blog

A Caliph’s Frustration with his Emirs

Yes, Bin Laden’s latest audiotape aired on al Jazeera is somewhat unique. Not in its ideological party line or in the Salafi doctrinal roots. That hasn’t changed nor is it expected to...

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online

Mercenaries vs. Counterinsurgency

Blackwater could be a worse problem than you think.

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...

June 4, 2008 |

How to Measure al Qaeda’s Defeat

 In an article published in the Washington Post on Friday May 30, CIA D...

April 20, 2007 | Walid Phares History News Network

Losing the War in Congress, Not in Iraq

A simple statement made by a national legislative leader in Washington this week indicates that a war is being lost, but it is not the war in Iraq. It is the defeat of the War of Ideas taking pla...

October 17, 2005 |

Making Progress in Iraq

By: Dr. Walid Phares. On Oct. 15, a historic Iraqi victory was registered in the 6,000-plus polling centers across the country. Millions of Iraqis cast their ballot for a new co...

July 29, 2004 |

Why Iraq is Part of our War Against Terror

With the Left and much of the mainstream media hell-bent on delegitimizing our war in Iraq; some Americans are questioning why we went to battle — and whether it was worth it. On December 2...

June 9, 2004 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Historical Precedents: The War on Terrorism Does Echo WW2

The 60th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy gave President Bush an opportunity to draw parallels between World War II, on the one hand, and the war in Iraq and the broader global conflict, o...

June 4, 2004 | Knight-Ridder

Post-World War II Lessons Show Building Iraqi Democracy is Vital

Authored by Andrew Apostolou     This weekend, hundreds of thousands will pay tribute at the scores of memorials in Normandy to those who in June 1944 landed on the beache...

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...