North American Aerospace Defense Command

July 26, 2024 | Cameron McMillan, Ryan Brobst, Bradley Bowman

Russian and Chinese Strategic Bombers Patrol near Alaska

Russian and Chinese strategic bombers conducted a combined patrol near Alaska on Wednesday in the latest sign of military cooperation between the two U.S. adversaries. The incident underscores the determination...

January 2, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

In U.S. backyard: How China embedded itself in Canada

Since the 1970s, there have been important political and economic pro-China vectors emanating out of Montreal and Ottawa. Since then, that have broadened to influential pro-Beijing groups across Canada. Canada...

May 28, 2020 | Andrea Stricker, Maj. Liane “Trixie” Zivitski

COVID-19 and the U.S. Air Force

COVID-19 is testing every aspect of U.S. national defense readiness and mission execution. The Air Force is preparing for what the chief of staff, General David Goldfein, termed a “reset,” requiring...

March 25, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Mikhael Smits , Maj. Liane “Trixie” Zivitski

As U.S. Struggles with Coronavirus, Moscow Probes American Defenses

As the Coronavirus crisis escalated earlier this month in the United States, Moscow repeatedly sent Tu-142 long-range reconnaissance aircraft to probe America’s homeland defenses. The incursions into...

April 25, 2016 | R. James Woolsey |

The miniaturization myth

Co-written with Peter Vincent Pry On March 9, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, a paranoid psychopath, displayed a nuclear missile warhead he threatens to launch against the Un...

February 16, 2016 | R. James Woolsey |

Underestimating Nuclear Missile Threats from North Korea and Iran

Co-written by William R. Graham, Henry F. Cooper, Fritz Ermarth and Peter Vincent Pry North Korea launched its second satellite on Saturday, yet the national press continues to...

July 27, 2015 | |

‘Peace for Our Time’

Banner headlines in a prominent national newspaper read “NUKE DEAL PAVES WAY FOR NEW ERA: Sworn Foes U.S., Iran Aim To Bury Hatchet” — without sarcasm. For critics of the Iran n...

July 22, 2015 |

Heading Toward An EMP Catastrophe

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...

May 17, 2012 | Clifford D. May |

Missile Defense Is For Wimps

When it comes to national security, there’s no time like mañana.

March 12, 2012 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard |

On Syria, Follow McCain

Here’s to John McCain, leading from the front. Last week, the Arizona senator cut through all the White House doubletalk on the Syrian uprising and demanded a more active U.S. policy, inclu...

June 6, 2007 | Dr. J. Peter Pham World Defense Review

Securing the New Strategic Gulf

In his 2006 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush issued a call for the United States to "replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025" and to "make...