What the 2026 Intelligence Assessment Gets Right—and Wrong
The US intelligence assessment identifies key threats but understates cyber risks and China’s Taiwan strategy, leaving US policymakers ill-prepared for emerging conflicts.
Post–Cold War era
8 Reasons Why the U.S. Must Maintain a Ban on Iran’s Uranium Enrichment and Plutonium Reprocessing
The United States and the international community have spent decades trying to restrict Iran’s uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing capabilities given the regime’s threats against the West...
Insights
Assessing the Challenges Facing NATO
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Legislative Testimonies
The Despotic Duo
Russo-Iranian Cooperation and Threats to U.S. Interests
Legislative Testimonies
Ruble Rumble
Offensive and Defensive Measures to Defeat Russia in the Economic Domain
Monographs
Accommodating Iran Will Be No More Successful Than Accommodating Russia
Putin’s horrifying war in Ukraine shows the likely results of the West continuing to ignore Iran’s nuclear quest
Op-eds
With Russian invasion of Ukraine, a page just turned in Europe’s history book
In the future, we will remember Feb. 24 alongside 9/11 and Dec. 7. Although Russia’s invasion is not a bolt from the blue like Pearl Harbor or the attack on the World Trade Center, many people did not...
Op-eds
Collusion or Collision?
Turkey-Russia Relations Under Erdogan and Putin
Monographs
Boykott
Germany’s Battle Against the Delegitimization of Israel
Monographs
The U.K. Has Its Own Russia Problem
A new report highlights various schemes by Vladimir Putin.
Op-eds
The advance of illiberal world disorder
What Americans achieved after World War II is endangered
Op-eds
The Chilcot Report
The Chilcot report on the Iraq war ought to elicit two emotions: sympathy and pity for former British prime minister Tony Blair. As was evident by late 2002, when Europeans saw the fri...
Op-eds
Has Turkey Betrayed the West?
Once a secular, modernizing country, Turkey’s ruthless assault on journalists raises serious doubts about its future.
Op-eds
A Nasty Piece of Work
A tawdry new book accuses the late Christopher Hitchens of plagiarism—and worse.
Op-eds
China Goes on Safari
By Dr. J. Peter Pham Understandably, the foreign policy focus of United States policymakers and media has been trained lately primarily on the ongoing events in the Greater Midd...
Op-eds
Thinking about Terrorism and Other Security Challenges in Africa
In last week's column, surveying developments in the former Somalia, Sudan, the Maghreb and Sahel, Nigeria and West Africa, and the rest of the continent, I concluded that "Through the c...
Op-eds
AFRICOM: Terrorism and Security Challenges in Africa
AFRICOM is not merely a post-Cold War experiment to respond to the security challenges of the twenty-first century, but also a much-needed updating of the internal structural framework that has l...
Op-eds
Pashtuns and Pakistanis
The war in Afghanistan obviously isn't going well. Depressing critiques from all quarters underscore Afghanistan's appalling poverty, warlordism, religious conservatism, corruption, pop...
Op-eds
Where to Stand and Fight
Earlier this week, in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Bush threatened Iran with "isolation" if it continues plowing forward in its nuclear program. Thi...
Op-eds
Symposium: What Happens If the Democrats Win
During the Cold War, Democrats were regarded as weak on national security. From Lyndon Johnson's departure from the White House in 1969 to Bill Clinton's post-Cold War return there in 1...